First crane egg laid in the UK for 400 years

A round-the-clock guard has been set up to protect the first crane egg laid in western Britain in more 400 years. Hunting and the loss of wetlands drove the long necked birds to extinction in Britain by 1600. But the Great Crane Project was launched in 2010 to rear cranes in captivity before reintroducing them to the West Country A crane has now laid an egg at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire - the first time since the project began.