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The decline of the Corncrake population has been reported since the 19th Century, and has even accelerated in the second half of the 20th century.
Over the past 50 years, the global population appears to have undergone a loss of more than 50 %.
In many areas where the species was once abundant, it has disappeared since the 1980s.
The Corncrake is protected under :