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Corncrakes and Grey Partridges

  • 11-05-2006 09:23PM
    #1
    googs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭


    Hello there

    Just that these have got so rear. Have you ever heard or seen a Corncrake or Grey Partridge or any other bird on the red list. If so where and when and do you think that they would survive if introduced to your area. I heard a Corncrake outside my house near the Airport ( Rural Farming Area ) about 15 years ago. It was a amazing call and it used to always start just before dusk in the summer. Not sure how long it went on for but was about 2 weeks. Also we had a male and female grey patridge resident in a neighbours garden about 10 years ago. They could definately be re-introduced around our area as there is both plenty of meadow and farmland for both.


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  • #2
    boneless
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    I have heard a corncrake... but it was on the Orkneys.

    There was a campaign a few years ago to saveguard meadows etc. around the Shannon Callows so as to provide better nesting facilities for the corncrake.

    I saw grey partridge... but it was in Germany!!!!


  • #3
    googs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭googs


    boneless donno why i brought this up but it's just with all the talk of the shannon callows and the bog that someone is trying to increase the grey patridge population, that most people don't realize that these rare birds were not to far from Dublin City and were resident a relatively short time ago...


  • #4
    boneless
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    The amount of development around Dublin county has resulted in a lot of loss of habitation. It is the changes in farming methods though that has had the worst effect on the populations of corncrake and partridge. However. there are some successes in population terms in the callows I believe for the "Crux Crux"... a Latin name that sounds like the corncrakes call!!

    I haven't lost heart yet... the REPS payment scheme is going to include grants to farmers to preserve more meadow and peat land for the partridges!!


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