Photo of the Week: A lapwing amid the bilberry shoots

This photo of a lapwing among young bilberry shoots was taken on the moors of Nidderdale by reader Heather Middleton.

Sadly, Heather has captured a view that is far rarer than it was just a generation or two ago. The lapwing, also known as the green plover, peewit – or, in Yorkshire, the tewit – has declined in numbers by 50% since the 1960s, and it is now "red-listed" as a species of high conservation concern.

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