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UK weather: Starlings over Aberystwyth pier, Wales

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© Licensed to London News Pictures. 2/03/2017. Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Starlings over Aberystwyth pier, Wales. As the sun sets on the end of a breezy and blustery day in west Wales, tens of thousand of tiny starlings fly in to crowd together for warmth, and to roost safely for the night on the cast iron legs underneath Aberystwyth’s Victorian seaside pier. Despite being still plentiful in Aberystwyth, the birds are in the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ‘red list’ of at risk species, with their numbers across the UK declining by over 60% since the 1970’s. Photo credit: Keith Morris/LNP

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