Daily Mail: Britain’s warming climate is helping rare birds to breed here in record numbers, research showed yesterday. The Rare Breeding Birds Panel reported that little egrets, firecrests, cranes and Mediterranean gulls all chalked up their highest numbers since monitoring began in 1973. The most up-to-date figures, from the panel’s 2006 survey, showed that little egrets increased their numbers to a recorded 434 breeding pairs, with the actual population estimated at around 600 …