Are there wild corncrakes at Pensthorpe?
Corncrakes went extinct as a breeding bird in England at the end of the twentieth century and now only reside in areas where they have been reintroduced as part of the Species Recovery Plan. The Pensthorpe estate itself does not possess the extensive wet meadows required for a release site but it is highly likely that the area would have had corncrakes in the past as they were once highly prevalent across most of England.
