Comment: Lapwings, farming and Environmental Stewardship
Philip Merricks
Pages 10-13
The Lapwing Vanellus vanellus is to many people the most evocative of farmland birds. Known as the farmer's friend, its fortunes in Britain have been inextricably bound up with farming practices, and as agriculture greatly intensified from the 1950s to the 1980s Lapwing numbers, sadly, declined.
Comment: Lapwings, farming and Environmental Stewardship
The Lapwing Vanellus vanellus is to many people the most evocative of farmland birds. Known as the farmer's friend, its fortunes in Britain have been inextricably bound up with farming practices, and as agriculture greatly intensified from the 1950s to the 1980s Lapwing numbers, sadly, declined.