🚩Did you know that cuckoos are on the red list?🚩 Red-list birds are the highest conservation priority, needing urgent action. Species on this list, such as cuckoos, are globally threatened, with big declines in breeding populations and ranges. So what's going on? Each year, cuckoos travel all the way from Southern Africa, passing through Spain, before they reach the UK. Once here, they tend to avoid urban areas. Even in rural counties such as Devon, where cuckoos were once widespread, they are now confined to outer areas of open moorland. Their distribution across the UK has also changed over time, with numbers down by 70% in England since 1995, yet up by 54% in Scotland between 1995 and 2018. Research is showing that the loss of hedgerows and the widespread use of insecticides could be affecting cuckoos’ main food source. Right now, we are working on the ground to restore the vital habitats cuckoos depend upon for food! We don’t want the call of a cuckoo to be restricted to c...