It seems, nowadays, that having 'corn' in one's name is a very unlucky epithet for plants and birds alike. Botanists will know that both Corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, have both declined drastically in the last few decades. Ornithologists will have long been aware of the retreat north and west of the Corncrake, Crex crex.