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Wings, laps, naps

The Times
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Sir, Your report on the decline of the lapwing (Sept 7) fails to mention places where the bird is doing well. East Yorkshire has many large “bare” fields of the type environmentalists love to hate. The lapwing appears to like them. Bare land for spring-sown crops lets them nest and raise chicks.

This obsession with returning everything to wetland and bog is not the answer to every environmental problem.

WILLIAM BRADLEY

Driffield, E Yorks

Sir, Your correspondent Norman Grimes writes that “RAF pilots have observed birds asleep on the wing” (Questions Answered, Sept 8). This strikes me as a far more sensible way of migrating.

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J. TAYMAR

Warwick