06/07/21: Predators and farmland birds, Stone curlew, Farm vending machine

Farming Today

• Episode: 06/07/21: Predators and farmland birds, Stone curlew, Farm vending machine
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:37
• Published: 2021-07-06 07:00

For farmland bird week Anna Hill hears from a farmer who says he has years of evidence illustrating that predator control is a necessary tool in the battle for the conservation of ground-nesting birds. Dr Barry McMahon is from University College Dublin has been studying farmland birds for many years and says predation is now recognised as part of the picture. Rebecca Rooney's been to an RSPB farm in Wiltshire to hear how work on habitat management has yielded an increase in numbers of stone curlew, and Dom King visits a farm shop in the Romney Marshes which boasts a high-tech vending machine. Presenter: Anna Hill Producer in Bristol: Toby Field