Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Name of
species
Approximate date of
extinction in Britain
Suitability for
reintroduction
Reintroduction efforts
so far
White
stork
Last recorded nesting
in Edinburgh in
1416.
37
10
In 2004 in Yorkshire a
pair tried to breed on an
electricity pole, whose
cables happened to have
been turned off for
maintenance.
38
In 2012 a
lone bird built a nest on
top of a restaurant in
Nottinghamshire.
39
There are frequent visits
by non- breeding birds.
Spoonbill
The last breeding
records until recently
were 1602 in
Pembrokeshire and
1650 in East Anglia.
40
10
A breeding colony of six
pairs established itself at
Holkham in Norfolk in
2010. In 2011, the
colony rose to eight
pairs and produced
fourteen young.
41
In
2012 nine pairs bred,
and nineteen young
birds fledged.42
42
Night
heron
Last bred here in
either the sixteenth or
seventeenth century,
at Greenwich.
Believed to be the
brewes
or
brues
often
served at medieval
banquets.
43
10
Today it is a scarce
visitor. It currently
breeds in many parts of
Europe. Now that it is
no longer persecuted in
Britain, it may start
breeding again here.
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