Tweet of the Day An extended version featuring the corncrake
N APRIL, RARE CORNCRAKES RETURN FROM their wintering grounds in Africa. Once known as land rails, these streaky, moorhen-like birds like, what corncrakes really need is varied farmland mosaics with “a degree of general untidiness” that allow space for plentiful patches of nettles and other ‘weeds’. This has proved frustratingly hard to achieve, despite years of conservation effort.
