wild FEBRUARY
1 Welcome sound
TIME FOR A MUCH-NEEDED GOOD news story. The barnacle geese that spend winter in southwest Scotland appear to have recovered after a third of this T population died of bird flu in 2020-21. Spectacular, yapping flocks of these lovely geese, which breed on Svalbard, a remote Arctic archipelago, commute daily between feeding areas along the Dumfries and Cumbrian coast and roost sites in the muddy Solway Firth.
2 All together
BRITAIN'S WINTER FLOCKS OF WADING birds are among the country's greatest natural spectacles. Knot form the largest of these gatherings. They are thick-set sandpipers, closely related to dunlin, which spend the winter almost exclusively on muddy estuaries, seldom venturing inland. Their biggest flocks peak at more than 100,000 individuals a thrilling sight.
This story is from the February 2025 edition of BBC Wildlife.
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