The "cost-benefit" hypothesis states that avian body organs show mass changes consistent with the trade-off between their functional importance and maintenance cost, which may vary throughout the ...

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SCOTLAND'S rarest breeding duck is facing extinction because brown trout are eating all its food in its last remaining stronghold. RSPB Scotland says angling could help save the common scoter, which ...

Common scoters are a rare breeding species in the UK Conservationists believe they have identified the cause of a decline in numbers of a rare duck. In the UK, common scoters breed at only a few ...

A VAST new population of common scoters has been discovered off the North Wales coast – and may affect future planning decisions on the siting of offshore wind farms. As many as 79,000 birds have been ...

We have never had a better sense of the timescales of Earth, of the ebb and flow of life across the planet, the rise and fall of species (not least, in eventual prospect, our own). Measured against ...

Plans to protect Carmarthen Bay, the winter home of the common scoter one of the UK's rarest birds, are to go out to public consultation. If the bay is designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) it ...

Climate change and mink could be among factors behind a decline in a species of duck, according to RSPB Scotland. Dr Mark Hancock, an ecologist with RSPB Scotland, is at the end of the second year of ...

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