Record number of cranes bred in 2025 as UK’s tallest bird continues comeback (www.independent.co.uk)

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A record number of cranes bred in the UK last year as the once-vanished bird continues its comeback, conservationists said.

Cranes went extinct in the country around 400 years ago as a result of over-hunting and the loss of their favoured wetland habitat.

But wild recolonisation from Europe since the late 1970s, backed by efforts to protect existing habitat and create new wetlands – along with a concerted reintroduction scheme which saw conservationists dress as cranes to hand-rear young birds, have enabled the bird to stage a comeback.

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