was extirpated as a breeding species in Great Britain by 1840. Its successful recolonisation at Minsmere, Suffolk, in 1947 led to its adoption as the logo of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The pied avocet has spread inland and northwards and westwards in Britain since then and it has bred in Wales and in Scotland in 2018 at Skinflats. Avocets have been sighted wintering at Browhouses, Dumfries and Galloway. Gallery References External links (Pied) avocet species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds pied avocet Birds of Eurasia Birds of East Africa Birds of Southern Africa Birds of North Africa Birds of South Asia pied avocet pied avocet Articles containing video clips