14 DAY TRIAL // For the first time in nearly 400 years, cranes can once again be seen nesting in South England. Thus, the conservationists working with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust say that four such birds have set up nests on the Severn Estuary.
These four cranes all hatched and grew up at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust base in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, Daily Mail informs us.
The people working at this animal sanctuary had to dress up as cranes themselves and teach them most of the things they needed to know in order to be able to survive in the wild.
According to the same source, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust hopes that 100 such birds will be released into the wild by 2015.
“This beautiful bird was so iconic to Britain yet it was almost wiped out by hunting and the draining of our wetlands. It may come to nothing, but this is an amazing moment seeing their first nest-building attempt in this part of the world for 400 years,” conservationist Amy King told the press.