fledge

As five assistant National Trust rangers packed up the tents which have been their home for three months at Long Nanny beach, they were celebrating the fledging of 54 little terns.

The monitoring, tagging and fledging of these birds has been a real partnership success, and is a model for what needs to be achieved elsewhere."

Two pairs of Roseate Terns, our rarest seabird, have nested on The Skerries, each fledging two youngsters.

They produce between four and five eggs, with fledging taking place from early June to early August.

The eggs and chicks were counted, and if possible, the chicks were banded prior to fledging.

"We therefore decided to give the chicks a helping hand by installing a man-made platform in the cave and removing the old nest to help the young with their fledging attempts.

The objectives of this study are to evaluate reproductive success of Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax), Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias), Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis), Great Egrets (Ardea alba), Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula), and Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in wetlands and rivers of northeast South Dakota by determining nest and fledging success and evaluating local and landscape level habitat variables that affect nest success.

We collected complete data from egg-laying through fledging or nest failure for 254 barn swallow nests and 88 cave swallow nests.

The study from the University of Leeds aimed to pinpoint the main trigger, which causes chicks to leave the nest and embark on an independent life, a process known as fledging.

Later that April, a subadult "visited" one of the older translocated chicks that was close to fledging.

"Two chicks successfully fledged from the Glaslyn osprey nest in 2005, followed by another two in 2006 and 2007 with a record three fledging in 2008, 2009 and last year."