Friday, 12 February 2016

Farmer attempts to bring back rare bird

27 January 2016 Last updated at 19:09 GMT

A County Down farmer is attempting to bring back a bird that has not been seen in the fields of Northern Ireland for several decades.

The grey partridge was once common, but changes in farming and its own tendency to stick up for itself in a fight, saw its numbers dwindle until it was declared extinct in Northern Ireland.

BBC News NI's Agriculture and Environment correspondent Conor Macauley reports.



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