Birds won't peck away profits if you plan with care: With the right tactics birds and crops can co-exist, as Gilly Johnson discovers on an East Anglian heavy-clay farm

摘要

When RSPB research biologist Tony Morris says farmland birds can be attracted back to commercial fields, without jeopardising profit, he's speaking from experience. The birds are definitely back on the heavy-clay farm he helps to run for the RSPB in Knapwell, Cambridgeshire. Skylark, yellowhammer and linnet numbers are up and it's all down to management strategies that fit comfortably with conventional farm practices and a standard winter-sown two wheats/rape rotation.