WHERE TO SEE BRITAIN’S FEATHERED SUPERSTARS

SPOONBILL

BIG white bird with a beak like a soup ladle, (right). Spot it at Cley next the Sea in North Norfolk.

CRANE

FIVE-foot tall and prone to dancing. Hickling Broad in Norfolk.

PEREGRINE FALCON

THE fastest flying bird on the planet, (right). Symonds Yat in Gloucestershire, the roof of the Tate Modern in London and Norwich Cathedral.

BEWICK’S SWAN

IT ARRIVES for the winter at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire.

OSPREY

THE hawk that plunges into water for fish (right). Spring and summer at Loch Garten in Scotland.

BLACKCAP

YOU can hear this phenomenal singing bird in parks and gardens everywhere in spring.

DIPPER

FAST-FLOWING rivers in northern England and the West Country.

KINGFISHER

OFTEN brightly coloured. Find it on slow rivers and banks above. Sit still and hope. Try Lackford Lakes in Suffolk.

COMMON TERN

LIKE a small, sleek, souped-up and deeply fabulous seagull. See it on rivers and coasts in spring and summer.

CAPERCAILLIE

IMPOSSIBLY big (below) — as large as a turkey. Abernethy Forest in Scotland.