This year forty-two broods of lapwing chicks and thirty-four lapwing nests with eggs were recorded on the grey partridge project area in Boora County Offaly.<\/p>\n
This is the highest number of lapwing broods ever recorded \u2013 a significant figure when one considers that the broods of chicks and the nests with eggs, were recorded in an area of 700 hundred acres.<\/p>\n
However, it is not known how many chicks survived to fledge. This question is been explored by our lapwing chick radio-tracking study, which kicked off this year.<\/p>\n
This research is funded by the Native Species conservation Committee of Dublin Zoo, Fota Wildlife Park & the National Parks & Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"