Lapwing numbers boosted by RSPB nature reserves (RSPB) (1 Viewer)

Conservationists are thrilled that lapwings, birds which have been disappearing from the UK, have had a successful 2014 breeding season in grassland habitats managed by the RSPB.

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Good news of a sort, but hardly 'thrilling'. Good for the people concerned and a handful of lapwings, but not good news for lapwings as a species.

The reserves are a drop in the ocean and the fact that breeding numbers have been good on them does almost nothing to impact on the problems in the sterile wider countryside. As a friend of mine often quotes, 'Who killed the corn buntings?'

(It wasn't the sparrowhawks, despite what clowns like Robin Page would have his readers believe)