{"id":25277,"date":"2023-03-09T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=25277"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:36:28","slug":"loud-and-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/2023\/03\/09\/loud-and-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Loud and proud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif intro\">Secretive corncrakes with a scraping call arrive in the UK this month <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1771\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/5b9f5884-a4b6-42ac-8b1b-c90308263243.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-25272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/5b9f5884-a4b6-42ac-8b1b-c90308263243.jpg 1771w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/5b9f5884-a4b6-42ac-8b1b-c90308263243-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/5b9f5884-a4b6-42ac-8b1b-c90308263243-886x1024.jpg 886w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/5b9f5884-a4b6-42ac-8b1b-c90308263243-768x888.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/5b9f5884-a4b6-42ac-8b1b-c90308263243-1328x1536.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1771px) 100vw, 1771px\" \/><figcaption>The Outer Hebrides off western Scotland is the corncrake\u2019s UK stronghold <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/BBC_Sounds_cmyk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-20487\" width=\"98\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/BBC_Sounds_cmyk.jpg 610w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/BBC_Sounds_cmyk-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center article-full-body sans-serif\"><em>Tweet of the Day <\/em><br>An extended version featuring the corncrake <\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif dropcap\">IN APRIL, RARE CORNCRAKES RETURN FROM their wintering grounds in Africa. Once known as land rails, these streaky, moorhen-like birds like to creep through dense meadow vegetation, which makes them infuriatingly difficult to see. But they famously make a racket with a voice that sounds like a piece of wood being moved across the teeth of a comb. Newly arrived males rasp their grating call up to 20,000 times a night, and people used to grumble that they couldn\u2019t sleep. It\u2019s not a complaint you hear often nowadays: corncrake numbers crashed after the Second World War due to agricultural intensification. Just 824 calling males were recorded in 2022 throughout the Outer Hebrides off western Scotland, with around <span>150 in Ireland. A handful of reintroduced birds can be heard in East Anglia. As the RSPB\u2019s Lee Schofield says in<em> <\/em><\/span><em>Wild <\/em><em>Fell, <\/em><span>what corncrakes really need is varied farmland mosaics with \u201ca degree of general untidiness\u201d that allow space for plentiful patches of nettles and other \u2018weeds\u2019. This has proved frustratingly hard to achieve, despite years of conservation effort.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-byline\"><strong>BH <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footer\">CORNCRAKE: OLIVER SMART<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretive corncrakes with a scraping call arrive in the UK this month Tweet of the Day An extended version featuring the corncrake IN APRIL, RARE CORNCRAKES RETURN FROM their wintering grounds in Africa. 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