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For the Corncrakes Sake and Mankinds

by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

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The corncrake has been saved more or less by efforts of the "Save the Corncrake" movement in Ireland, and the RSPB in the UK. The bird, its distinctive sound once common, is now only in a few hinterlands, one of the main ones in the callowlands around Banagher in County Offaly, and down into Lusmagh and also Meelick and Clonfert in neighbouring Galway, where ...

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Saturday 19th June 2010 11:42 am

conservation   corncrake   nature

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