This video is about young northern lapwings with a parent at their nest in the Netherlands.
From daily The Independent in Britain:
Lapwings: Threatened bird species takes sanctuary in a Northern Ireland prison
Prisoners serving life sentences helped create the habitat for breeding lapwings
Michael McHugh
Monday 20 April 2015
One of the world’s most threatened birds has found a sanctuary within a prison that houses Northern Ireland’s most dangerous inmates.
Prisoners serving life sentences helped create the habitat for around 20 pairs of breeding lapwings. The birds have made their home on a marshy no-man’s-land at HMP Maghaberry, dominated by razor wire and lookouts behind reinforced glass.
The six-acre patch of waste ground lies between the perimeter fence and the wall of the jail, near Lisburn in County Antrim, known for holding dissident republicans, sex offenders and murderers.
Swampy, short grass and the lack of predators such as foxes have created the ideal conditions for breeding chicks, said retired prison guard and gardener Denis Smyth.
“We have to work together as a team, the prisoners and myself. We have a very good relationship with them; there is never a problem,” he said.
Lapwings, which are about the size of pigeons, have suffered a population decline of 50 per cent during the last 25 years as changes in farmland have impacted on habitats.
First convictions in Malta for illegal shooting of a Cuckoo and a Lapwing: here.
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I know nothing when it comes to birds. I do know that from the street to my front door it’s about 1800 feet. It’s a gravel drive way. The grass grows in the middle where I don’t drive on. I’ve seem a couple times these tiny birds make a nest there. Ever heard of them? I thought birds only made nests up high.
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There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of ground-nesting bird species; from big ostriches to small plovers. About variety in bird nests:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_nest
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See also
http://birding.about.com/od/birdhouses/fl/Types-of-Bird-Nests.htm
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