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 ...

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 ...

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Numbers of velvet scoter and long-tailed ducks recorded in separate Baltic Sea surveys have also fallen sharply, down by 65 per cent and 60 per cent respectively since 1992. Richard Hearn, head of ...

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 ...