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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Pennines delight as drone survey offers hope for one of UK’s rarest birds

Brown-coloured dunlin on grassland
Dunlins travel thousands of miles from west Africa to breed in the heather moorlands of Cumbria. Photograph: Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com)/RSPB

Deep in the Cumbrian Pennines, walkers might be lucky enough to spot small birds with spindly legs, long beaks and bodies like feathered balls hopping through the peat bogs.

These are endangered dunlins – at risk in England because their favoured soggy landscapes are drained and burned for farming and grouse shooting.

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