In pictures: wild successes

A former carrot field in Suffolk has become the home for pairs of breeding cranes, one of a number of successes among British wildlife species.

Otters are now found throughout Scotland and many other areas, as cleaner water courses afford more fish. (Photo: Environment Agency)

Avocets, which returned to nest in Britain in 1948, now nest widely around the south-east coastline.

Declared extinct in Britain in 1979, the large blue butterfly was reintroduced in 1983. Some 10,000 were recorded in 2006 - the most for 60 years. (Photo Somerset Wildlife Trust]

Polecats were confined to a small area of mid-Wales by the mid 20th century. With a decline in trapping they now live in most of Wales and parts of England (Copyright Wildstock).

The white tailed eagle became extinct as a UK nesting bird in 1916. Reintroduction began in the Inner Hebrides in 1975. The UK population now stands at around 34 pairs. (Photo: RSPB)

Schemes to reintroduce beavers on reserves in the UK have brought a number of reports of animals escaping into the wild.

Ospreys, extinct in Great Britain by 1916, returned to Scotland in the 1950s and spread in the 21st century to north Wales, the Lake District and Rutland Water (Photo: RSPB).

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