The Guardian13 jun 2026Macro
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A western reef heron was first seen at Foryd Bay on the weekend of 7–8 June and subsequently at Caernarfon harbour, marking the first UK record of the species, whose normal range extends from west Africa to India. Experts from the British Trust for Ornithology and Manchester Metropolitan University attributed the sighting and the bird's survival to increasingly mild UK winters that no longer freeze shallow feeding waters with regularity, and noted that other formerly tropical species—including a squacco heron in Lincolnshire this week, a black-winged kite present since 2023, and the first breeding zitting cisticola last year—are shifting their ranges north with climate change.