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UK’s biggest ever farmland bird count shows farmers committing to conservation.
News 07 Apr 2021
Participation in an annual nationwide survey of farmland birds has more than doubled. Britain’s farmers and gamekeepers have shown their long-term commitment to conservation alongside productive land-use by completing this year’s GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count in record numbers.
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s
Dr Roger Draycott, who organised the count, said “We could not be more delighted with the response to this year’s GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count. Despite much of the country being blanketed in snow during the count (5-21 February) participation has shot up, with 2,500 counts returned, representing a
February 21, 2021 12:46 pm
A “far from controversial” idea, the reintroduction of the Corn Bunting to Ireland is being “gently” spoken about in conservation circles. But, why?
According to BirdWatch Ireland, the Corn Bunting was once a “widespread resident in lowland agricultural areas” – that is, before it became extinct in the 1990s.
Cork tillage farmer Paul Moore is co-ordinating a report on tillage farmland and biodiversity, with part of that looking at what research has been done internationally on reintroductions of the bird.
Fat Bird Of The Barley
Moore, a member of BirdWatch Ireland for the last 40 years, tells
AgriLand that the “small, Sparrow-size bird, as the name suggests, is very much a bird of cereal-growing areas”.