Blog by Amber Bicheno, Project Assistant With summer (supposedly) in full swing, it is the busiest time of year for the Curlew Country Team. We’ve had 40 eggs collected from wild nests, and carefully incubated with help from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. It has been an amazing learning experience […]
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Amanda Perkins, Project Manager Blog We would like to say a big thank you to Spring Watch for raising the plight of curlew and highlighting the curlew recovery work being undertaken by the small Curlew Country team. We are grateful too to Curlew Champion Mary Colwell Hector who put Billy […]
Blog by Amanda Perkins, project manager. I worked on an estate on the island of Evia in Greece one summer many years ago. It was an eccentric place. Once I was in the garden of the main house, recuperating from a virus, when the mistress of the house flung open […]
In early May 2019, we invited a number of our volunteers to attend an evening about curlew nest finding. The aim was to help others to help us and to improve our chances of finding those outlying curlew pairs which remain elusive. Every year we are newly reminded of the […]
We are now well into the nesting season, which is always later than many other curlew breeding areas, such as moorland, where there are already chicks present. Ornithologist Tony has been out relentlessly searching for curlew nests, and to date 23 different nests have been located. A proportion of these […]
After a rocky start to the year, with no certain funding secured to continue for the 2019 season, our efforts turned to crowdfunding in order to help us continue with our vital work. Securing funding has become increasingly difficult, with more and more organisations putting in bids to the same […]
In an exciting turn of events, and another first for Curlew Country, one of the six headstarted chicks released in 2017 has been spotted back in Shropshire. In an exciting turn of events, and another first for Curlew Country, one of the six headstarted chicks released in 2017 has been […]
UK Lowland Curlew Recovery (Curlew Country) and The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust collaborate to help the lowland curlew population survive. Following the findings of the first two years of the project, when no chicks successfully fledged from nests, Curlew Country decided to take drastic measures to prevent the signficant population […]
The haunting cry of the Curlew crept into my childish soul without my even noticing. My father kept a boat in Poole harbour, which involved hours of waiting around for his disinterested offspring. On cold winters days, I would sit in the car after primary school, while he scraped or […]
In aid of the Curlew Country Appeal we are holding a raffle! Launched on the 21st April (World Curlew Day), it will be drawn 1 month later, on the 21st May. The money raised will go towards the continuation of the project’s vital curlew recovery work. In 2019 we are […]
