The keeper’s view
Dec 19, 2019
3 minutes
The lapwing, peewit and green plover are all one and the same bird and they were once an icon of the British countryside. There was not a plough they did not follow, hardly a day their wavering flocks were absent from and their namesake call ever-present on a walk in the same countryside.
As great parent birds, they dived at any predator venturing too close to nest or young. I remember freeing one on the Ingestre Estate in Stafford many years ago. There was
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