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Although Cuthbert Rookery is closed to the public, other accessible areas nearby host plenty of wading birds: During late winter and spring, walk around Eco Pond, close to the park's Flamingo Visitor Center, to see egrets, spoonbills, wood storks, and more.
The price of a feather
In this paper, we present a test of our hypothesis using southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma) and wading birds as predators on a common estuarine fish, spot (Leiostomus xanthurus).
Nonadditive effects of terrestrial and aquatic predators on juvenile estuarine fish
Phil Burston, RSPB water policy officer, said work to keep the sites wet meant that at the beginning of the drought the reserves were in good condition with full pools, ditches and soggy fields attracting wading birds to breed - but now they were very dry.
Lack of rain puts strain on wildlife
The beach is protected as rare wading birds, known as black-tailed godwits, spend their winters on the mudflats.
OUR BEACH IS BEIN GRUINED BY RUBBISH
Wading birds are often found on areas of damp, wet moorlands and rough grasslands, feeding on the worms and ground insects.
Threatened birds win new friends; Study to probe falling numbers
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland said: "The Firth of Forth is one of the most important wading bird sites in Scotland.
GENDER BENDER SHRIMPS; Fears pollution is to blame
The hedgehogs are being culled because they are eating the eggs of rare wading bird colonies.
Dogs will hunt hogs
Scottish Natural Heritage says the hedgehogs must be killed as they threaten the island's wading bird population.
A prickly challenge
They will be on the trail of the slender-billed curlew, a crow-sized wading bird which is now one of 47 "lost" bird species that may possibly have become globally extinct.
The hunt is on for 'lost' bird species
A rare wading bird that flies 1,600 miles every year from Russia to spend its summers on the British south coast has been shot dead by a Russian professor, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) says.
Rare and long-time Russian visitor shot dead near Finland border
News quickly spread among the bird-watching fraternity and dozens descended on the nature reserve to catch a glimpse of the wading bird not usually seen further south than the Shetland Islands.
Park's Easter visitor puts twitchers in a flap
The wading bird is an exceptional breed and boasts an upturned bill.
Twitchers make the most of avocets' first visit
It is also protected under UK law as home to many species of wading bird.
Dunes at risk from dredgers; Council to fight company's plans for Liverpool Bay
Worries about the impact of plans to upgrade the Aberdeen to Inverness road on the wading birds were raised at Holyrood.
Worries new A96 route will drive away rare curlews; ROADS
The area also hosts a variety of wildlife including many species of insects, toads, frogs, turtles, small mammals, coyotes and birds such as warblers, wading birds, owls and hawks.
Learn about native birds, bees at COD's Kirt Prairie