A short video about the season so far for Curlew Country, the trials the project faces and the new techniques being trialled to increase the population. Featuring project manager, Amanda Perkins, and project ornithologist, Tony Cross. Our thanks go to Billy Clapham for the filming and editing.
Amber Bicheno
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As a conservation project, Curlew Country has been repeatedly pushing the boundaries and trialling new intervention methods in its implementation of curlew recovery. But who are the people behind the project – the ones pushing through these changes and fighting for all things curlew? This is the first in a […]
Blog post by Amanda Perkins, project manager, originally written for GWCT. Over the weekend the first chicks arrived from nests being protected as part of the Curlew Country project. They did not hatch in the wild, but from our incubators, which this year are full of curlew eggs taken from […]
Curlew Cam 2018 is now live! On monday 21st May, the Curlew Country team once again set up the popular live stream nest camera. Head over to view it now here. The pair have been sitting tight, but we’d love to know if you see the pair changeover or any […]
Capturing Curlews: April’s Song and Dance As the rain finally began to turn to sunshine for one beautiful week in late April, I travelled up to Shropshire from my home in Bristol to finally begin the production of a film I’ve had in the works since Christmas. I am a Masters […]
A grant has been awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to aid the recovery of an iconic bird – the curlew. This award is announced on ‘World Curlew Day’ 21st April 2018. Curlew Country is starting a new phase of its groundbreaking curlew recovery work this month as the breeding […]
A recent summit on Curlews was convened by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on Dartmoor. Amanda Perkins, project manager of Curlew Country the Shropshire and Welsh Marches based lowland curlew recovery project was asked to speak about its work alongside Tom Orde Powlett from Bolton Castle managed grouse […]
The Stiperstones and Corndon Hill Country Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS) ended at Easter. Curlew Country was one of 14 active projects that formed part of the LPS, but which evolved and grew in ways that were not anticipated before the LPS began. The LPS has received fresh funding for a […]
New Curlew Country Contact Details E-mail: curlewcountry@gwct.org.uk Telephone: 01743 296100 Mobile: 07740493359 There are a few technical delays whilst moving from Shropshire Council to our new hosts the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust. Please bear with us during this changeover period. Please note that the old e-mail address is no […]