As Britain went to the polls last Thursday the children of Falmouth Primary Academy cast their own votes: to help choose the nation's favourite bird.

The pupils decided who truly rules the roost as they took part in the postal ballot as part of the Britain's National Bird campaign, choosing from ten candidates in the first such survey to be held since the robin won the title in the 1960s.

One pupil, Felix, said: "We ticked which bird we want to be the bird of Britain. Then we had to fold them over and put them in our ballot box."