The number of calling corncrakes at WWT Welney has tripled in just three years after the wetlands centre was selected as a new release site for a reintroduction scheme. The corncrake is a small bird previously found across much of the UK, now lost virtually everywhere but the western islands of Scotland. In 2021 the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, the wetlands restoration charity, was invited to host a new release site at WWT Welney as part of a reintroduction project that also involves Pensthorpe Conservation Trust, Natural England, Zoological Society of London and the RSPB. Describing the impor…