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With their favouring partly hidden nest sites, the provision of nestboxes has proven a dramatic conservation success, with the birds taking to them very readily.

This results in greatly increased breeding productivity with the protection given to the young from predatory birds like Herring Gulls.

At one colony on Coquet Island, Northumberland, the population rose from 25 pairs ( 1997 ) to 92 pairs ( 2005 ) after nestboxes were provided.

Similar measures have been undertaken at the Anglesey tern colonies along with clearance of vegetation, in particular Tree Mallow.