Lovelorn Doncaster bird still without a mate after 600-mile tour of England
A lovelorn Doncaster bird has flown 600 miles around Britain in search of a mate - and returned home without luck.
Scientists followed the nightjar across Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and the Midlands have renamed the bird Marcel, after the Love Island contestant.
University of York researchers tracking the behaviour of the threatened birds on the Humberhead Peatlands, near Doncaster, were amazed to see how Bird 16840 went on an odyssey around the UK after failing to find a partner locally.
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