Efforts to save Wales’ most threatened bird species, the curlew, saw electric fencing go up around nests to protect their chicks from foxes and off-lead dogs.
Trail camera footage from a wetland reserve near Wrexham shows chicks surviving behind the fencing.
It is giving hope for the bird after an expert assessment warned the upland wader could be gone as a “viable breeding species” by 2033.
As few as 400 curlew still breed in Wales and their nests are so hard to find that thermal imaging drones were trialled as a way to find and help more birds through the breeding season.
Video edited by Nathan Aviss
