Cranes return to Britain after 400 years via a conservation project

Cranes became extinct in Britain four hundred years ago because of hunting and loss of their habitats in the wetlands - a conservation project has now brought them back in record numbers. The project was the Great Crane Project and, in it, eggs were imported from Germany.
The birds were reared at Slimbridge Wildlife & Wetlands Trust in Gloucestershire where the staff acted as replacement mothers.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 27 December 2016.

The birds jump around, dance and makes noise - it has an air of wilderness about it. After the birds became extinct in Britain four centuries ago, a breeding pair returned to East Anglia in 1978. However, only recently its population has grown - this year 160 birds have been recorded in the South West of England, apart from Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Wales and East Scotland.
The young cranes raised at Slimbridge were released on the Somerset levels and many of them have now returned. Trackers had been fitted on them so that researchers could monitor their movements, especially during severe flooding in Somerset three years ago - the birds survived the ordeal.


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