They glide on the sea looking for food in perfectly synchronized rows, our birds of the week are the velvet scoters. The velvet scoter is a large and powerful sea duck. It can grow up to 58 ...

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TWO of Scotland's sea duck populations are threatened with extinction as the UK loses more than one million individual birds every year. The velvet scoter and the long-tailed duck, both wintering sea ...

He said: “Sea duck numbers in Europe have crashed and they urgently need conservation. Velvet scoter overwintering in the UK have gone from several thousand birds to less than a hundred in just a few ...

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 ...