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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.

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