#15 Conservation Corner - The last corncrake release in the Wensum Valley

Pensthorpe Conservation Trust have been breeding and releasing corncrakes in the Wensum Valley for the past 5 years. Over that time frame the Trust has released over 500 birds.

Sadly the project of releasing them here in the Wensum Valley has now come to an end. This was a five-year trial, hoping to re-establish a nucleus of breeding birds in habitat that could be managed for corncrakes. The results to date have shown a wide dispersal of returning birds, and this makes monitoring and managing for them very challenging, less likely they will find each other, and therefore successfully breed in the wild.

Pensthorpe Conservation Trust hope to continue the partnership with Natural England to trial another suitable release area, where several birds have chosen to return to.