London - The population of one of Britain's most threatened birds increased this summer, wildlife experts said yesterday. British farmers have been given incentive payments to delay mowing until after August 1st to give young corncrakes time to hatch and escape.
This summer a fourth census of corncrakes in Britain revealed that the total population of singing male birds went up by 23 per cent from 480 to 589, since the last full census in 1993, said the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.