However, even here, the introduction of a grant scheme for farmers to delay mowing to allow chicks time to fledge, or to cut fields starting in the centre, so allowing these ground-hugging birds a ...

National efforts to boost the number of corncrakes in Ireland are paying off, but the populations of this shy bird are still at risk. A small victory in Ireland’s conservation efforts has been scored, ...

UK birdlovers are delighted that an attempt to re-establish the corncrake in England appears to be going well. A group of month-old corncrake chicks has been spotted on the reserve where they are ...

Donegal, Mayo and Galway are now managing land for nature, implementing measures which protect this bird and improve its habitat ...

You can listen to the corncrake's loud, distinctive call by pressing play The "crex crex" call of the corncrake was once a familiar sound in the British countryside. But habitat loss caused by modern ...

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November has become the single most surprising month of the year for unusual bird sightings, leading many to expect — and even take for granted — the unexpected. But a Nov. 7, 2017, discovery ...

Dozens of bird watchers flocked to Long Island this week to catch a glimpse of a rare bird that had veered thousands of miles off course and onto the side of Ocean Parkway. The lucky birders made it ...

The Weather Channel made an error in a graphic, typing Corncrake instead of Ocracoke, and people on social media were more than happy to point out the mistake. When ...

ANOTHER LIFE:IN THE RATHER less rained-upon west of Connacht, it has been a modestly good summer for corncrakes. No fewer than 42 of the birds were rasping their hearts out earlier on, half-a-dozen of ...

The numbers of corncrake, one of Britain's rarest farmland birds, has fallen suddenly after fewer farmers took up grants to preserve the old-fashioned hay meadows they need to survive. The endangered ...

One of Europe's rarest birds, the corncrake, has bred successfully in Yorkshire for the first time in decades. The discovery was made when the bird's mating call was heard by a farmer in the Pennine ...