A 2003 account of the impact of changes in farming methods on the bird populations of British farmland over the past 250 years.[...]
With its striking green-black and white plumage and distinctive pee-witcall, the Lapwing is one of Britain's best-known birds. Lapwings dependon agricultural land to breed and are considered a barometer of thehealth of this habitat; the population has crashed over recent decades,partly due to change[...]