Donal Hickey: Habitat decline hits birds

Last week’s column on the impact of modern farming on wildlife brought reaction from a number of readers who also felt the Bride River Project, in east Cork that we mentioned might be a model for others, writes Donal Hickey.

A man we met in Freemount, Co Cork, asked if we had recently seen that beautiful small bird, the yellowhammer, once widespread in Ireland. The answer was no, sadly.