Curlew Focus – The Curlew Cam Pair
Catch up with our Curlew Cam pair with Project Officer, Caleb Stradling.
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Curlew News
Curlews go to Cardiff
A delegation from Gylfinir Cymru met recently with Huw Irranca-Davies, Deputy First Minister responsible for climate change and rural affairs in Welsh Government, to discuss the challenges facing Curlews breeding in the Welsh countryside. The Deputy First Minister commented positively on the work achieved already to put the plight of Curlews on the political and
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Mid-May Curlew Season Update 2023
New beginnings – Eggs, Returning Chicks and New Collaborations – Amanda Perkins Curlew Nest Finding After a late spring, the first egg was still found at around the usual time in late April. Ornithologist Tony Cross managed to find and collect many eggs to be headstarted in the first few weeks of May. It is
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World Curlew Day 2023 Walk with Curlew Country
Celebrate World Curlew Day 2023 in Curlew Country! Come for a walk and learn about Curlew with a good chance of spotting one. Join Amanda Perkins and James Warrington for a guided walk in Curlew Country. Come and learn about the Curlew from the specialists, with a good chance of hearing and perhaps spotting local
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Curlew Nesting Behaviour
The nest Many Curlew pairs return to the same territory to nest in year after year. Some nest in the same spot, others choosing a new site each year, often on a different farm to the one on which they nested in previous years. The height of the vegetation and lack of disturbance would seem to
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Giant Curlew Spotted on World Curlew Day
A trip through the local hills of the Curlew Country area may see you pulling in to the Stiperstones Inn for some well earned refreshments, but beware… sightings of a giant 6 foot Curlew roaming the car park have been coming in thick and fast. If you catch a glimpse, we would love to see
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April 21st is World Curlew Day
Tomorrow, 21st April is World Curlew Day Curlew Country Manager, Amanda Perkins will be on BBC Radio Shropshire at 8.35am tomorrow talking about this year’s work and our activities for the day. At 7.00pm in the evening the newly formed Curlew Recovery Partnership is holding its first webinar. The speakers will be Mary Colwell, Dr
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New partnership formed to save England’s threatened Curlews
The Curlew Recovery Partnership is a new, exciting and transformative initiative, bringing together all those with an interest in Curlew conservation, including land managers, farmers, gamekeepers, policymakers and researchers. They are joining forces to help secure the future of one of England’s most iconic and threatened species, the Eurasian Curlew. Urgent action is needed. The
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Waders for Real Conference
Curlew Country attended the Waders for Real conference, hosted by GWCT at their head office at Fordingbridge. The conference brought together projects, organisations and farmers that have been working in wader conservation in recent years. The Waders for Real LIFE funded project, which works primarily with Lapwing, but also Snipe and Redshank, has made great
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Gylfinir Cymru Delegation Meeting
Gylfinir Cymru delegation meeting with Lesley Griffiths, Assembly Minister for the Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs. On Tuesday 22nd October Project Manager, Amanda Perkins was one of a small group from Gylfinir Cymru met with Lesley Griffiths. Gylfinir Cymru (Curlew Wales for those on the English side of the border), formed to try and halt
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Curlew Country Training Days
In response to the high demand for help and advice which we have received over the past few years and which due to our limited capacity we are not always able to fulfil, we are setting up two training courses. One is for farmers, landowners and managers (Wednesday 13th November) and the second is for
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