Farmland birds are disappearing—quietly, steadily, and far faster than most people realize.
What once filled open fields with movement and sound is now fading into silence.
Pictured here is a family of red-legged partridges, standing together in a landscape that no longer guarantees their future. Each year, sights like this grow rarer as farmland intensifies, hedgerows vanish, and insects—the foundation of their food chain—decline. What looks like a peaceful rural scene is, in truth, a fragile moment: a species caught between survival and loss, living on land that no longer works for wildlife the way it once did.
