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| | BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Grey Heron |
 | | The BTO Heronries Census, which has monitored Grey Herons since 1928, shows the species to be more abundant now than ever before. |
 | | In the latest special survey of UK heronries, carried out in 2003 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Heronries Census, a record total of more than 10,337 Grey Heron nests were counted. |
 | | The current population estimates for that year, implying that almost 4,000 nests in the UK were not reported to the survey, allow for known heronries (mostly in Scotland) that were not visited in 2003, but not for the few areas, mainly in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where heronries have never been counted. |
| www.bto.org /birdtrends2005/wcrheron.htm (303 words) |
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