PUBLISHED: 14:53 31 July
2018 | UPDATED: 14:53 31 July 2018
Dozens of birds that were once a
common sight in the Norfolk countryside before a steep decline put them on the
endangered list are set to be released into the wild near Diss.
Earsham Wetland Centre has reared
100 grey partridge as part of its conservation work and plans to release most
of them at Dickleburgh Moor where they are creating a new nature reserve.
Both nationally and in Norfolk,
grey partridge, also known as the ‘English partridge’, have undergone a massive
decline and are a red-listed species.
In Edwardian times there were
more than a million roaming the British countryside. By the early 1990s this
had dropped to 145,000, and today estimates suggest that this figure has halved
again.
Ben Potterton, trustee at Earsham
Wetland Centre, which opened last year in the old River Waveney Study Centre
building, on the site of the former Otter Trust, said this summer’s dry weather
had prompted them to rear grey partridge for their Dickleburgh site.
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