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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Barkham

Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

A chough flying above a field
The chough disappeared from England, mostly because of changing farming practices. Photograph: Wildwood Trust

The chough, a charismatic cliff-dwelling corvid, has bred in Kent for the first time in two centuries.

A young pair among eight birds released last year defied expectations to successfully breed this summer, making a nest on Dover Castle and rearing one chick, which fledged in June.

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