Turning the tide for Scotland's waders
NATURESCOT Golden Plovers breed on moorland before flying back south before winter Working for Waders is a key initiative that is seeking to arrest the alarming decline in our wading bird population, writes Agnes Stevenson. They are an iconic feature of our coastline and estuaries and their long-legged and long-billed silhouettes appear too on lochs and lagoons, but the waders that are so much a part of our landscape are in dire trouble. In recent years populations of curlew and lapwing have collapsed, down 61% and 55% on what they once were, and oystercatchers too are struggling, with...
Source: heraldscotland.com