5th June
Press Association 2018
Conservationists who rescued eggs
from muddy farmland have helped boost the population of a rare wading bird
which is likely to be threatened with extinction in the near future.
There are around 60 pairs of
black-tailed godwits in the UK, where they are red-listed by the RSPB and
possess Near Threatened status globally.
Flooding forced godwits in East
Anglia’s Nene and Ouse Washes, where about 46 of the UK’s 60 pairs can be
found, away from the safety of their natural wetland nesting habitat and on to
farmland.
Some of the eggs, on land hit by
heavy spring downpours, were in “such bad condition that they resembled muddy
potatoes”, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) said.
Conservationists, working with
farmers, rescued 32 eggs from the farmland.
The WWT said 42 chicks have
hatched so far this year as part of the wider Project Godwit.
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