Seabirds Boosted by Island Rats' Decline

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A colony of seabirds on a remote island has grown by at least 300 per cent after a scheme to remove rats was introduced.

Studies on Lundy Island, off the North Devon coast, revealed just 150 pairs of manx shearwaters in 2001.

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Seabirds Boosted by Island Rats' Decline

But this year, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) carried out a further count and recorded 560, with e...

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