Joint research with the universities of Newcastle and Manchester suggested golden plover, which are found on moors and peat bogs in the Highlands, are breeding significantly earlier than 20 years ago.
Towards the end of the plover breeding season, the rate of female divorce declines.
But as the afternoon wears on and the water retreats, a crowd of little birds arrives to feast in the shallows: short-billed dowitchers, Western sandpipers, a black-bellied plover.
A variety of seabirds and shorebirds inhabit the islands, including the endangered brown pelican, least tern, and piping plover.
Other species at risk include the red throated diver, golden plover and merlin.
To investigate what causes who to leave whom, and when, a group of animal behaviourists and mathematicians has been studying a shore dwelling bird called the Kentish plover.
large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia.
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