High numbers of the red-listed lapwing are being reported at wetlands along the Humber estuary.

“Crazy numbers” of lapwings have been reported by the RSPB along the Humber estuary.

The lapwing is currently on the UK Red List - the highest conservation priority - due to severe population declines, with numbers nationally down 55% since the 1960s, the charity said.

However, on the stretch of shoreline from Blacktoft Sands near Goole down to Tetney Marshes south of Grimsby, “anything between 15 and 20,000 lapwings” have been counted.