Bird cages are being placed along beaches to help protect a threatened bird. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Natural England are working together to install the cages along the coast in Cumbria to protect ringed plovers. The birds are red listed, meaning they have special protection, and the project was set up in response to the growing number of “failed nests,” the RSPB said. RSPB conservationist Steph Leow said only five out of 30 breeding pairs of ringed plover on a three-mile stretch of coast had managed to hatch chicks, and only two had got chicks to a fledgling stage.

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