Britain's most ambitious wild bird recovery programme is being launched to bring back the lapwing, the handsome plover that once bred on every farm, but is now declining everywhere. In a five-year ...

A pioneering project to reverse the decline in lapwing numbers has been announced for the Avon Valley. Thirty-five farmers who farm between Salisbury in Wiltshire and Christchurch in Dorset will take ...

Many species of waders, named because they hunt for food on the shorelines of the country’s lakes and rivers, are continuing to struggle, according to scientists in the latest Breeding Bird Survey ...

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Once common on farmland across the UK, the instantly-recognisable lapwing has been declining rapidly in recent years. Pennant landowner Charles Grisedale decided in 1999 to make a small contribution ...

Dozens of birdwatchers have descended on a small fishing village after a bird usually found in East Asia was spotted. The grey-headed lapwing, which normally spends winters in India before moving to ...