Page 61 - BBC Wildlife Volume 36 #04

FACT FILE
CORNCRAKE
CREX CREX
HABITAT Nettle beds, iris
patches and umbellifers in the
spring, tall grass and arable
crops later in the summer
DIET Invertebratessuch
as worms, spiders, beetles,
snails and slugs
THREATS Intensification of
farming and harvesting of
crops earlier in the year

! CONSERVATION STATUS
RED

Corncrake habitat needs
to be structured to allow
the birds to walk through it
easily without being seen by
aerial predators above them.

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