PUBLISHED: 15:56 21 June
2018
A flock of rare black-tailed
godwits were released in the Cambridgeshire Fens after being painstakingly
hand-reared by conservationists.
Many of the birds released on
June 20 were not expected to hatch due to the terrible condition of the eggs as
a result of the late spring downpours.
However, the eggs, which were
rescued from muddy farmland, and the chicks were safely raised until old enough
to look after themselves.
This practice is one element of
Project Godwit – a partnership between the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT) and
the RSPB - which aims to restore the UK breeding population by collecting eggs
for rear and release, known as head-starting.
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