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It had vanished from the UK by the 1870s, but the secretive bird with the foghorn voice had a record-breaking year in 2021, says the RSPB

A week later the police investigation into the massive blaze is still ongoing.

The RSPB said birds will be unable to nest in the area for months

The blaze near Parkgate, which burned reedbeds on a site of special scientific interest, has been put out

A Dove Stones site manager said two and a half football pitches worth of woodland was destroyed by the blaze

Around a square kilometre of marsh at Parkgate, near Neston, was damaged in what is thought to be a deliberately lit fire.

Cathedral bosses say netting is needed to protect the building

RSPB Marazion Marsh, Cornwall: It’s my first murmuration. At first they are everywhere, then suddenly they are gone

Binoculars in hand, I’m hunkered down beside the floodplain at the RSPB’s Nene Washes nature reserve in Cambridgeshire, England. It’s a cold, late-winter morning and there are few people around, but I’ve come early to try to get a glimpse of a giant among British birds: the common crane.