Huge congratulations to Curlew Country Consultant Ornithologist, Tony Cross, who has been presented with a much deserved lifetime achievement award his outstanding dedication to ornithological activities in Wales. Tony’s knowledge and understanding of birds is legendary. His passion for his work leads him on adventures and into scrapes, but if […]
Amber Bicheno
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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 […]
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), […]
During Mental Health awareness week, our regular farm blogger, Rhian Pinches, sent a heartfelt blog on the issues facing farmers. It got trapped in the system somewhere, so it is a little late. Rhian mentions that she is expecting a new baby and we are delighted to announce the arrival of […]
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) […]
The hunting of curlew in France has long been a point of contention, with moratoriums being placed and lifted on and off throughout the past 10 years. Within Western Europe it is now recognised that the population of Eurasian Curlew is decreasing rapidly, and measures are being put in place to try and […]
Headstarting 2019 was the third year of headstarting for Curlew Country. This year a chick from its pioneering headstarting trial carried out in 2017, returned to the Curlew Country landscape close to both the site at which it was reared and where it was released at Dolydd Hafren. This is […]
How is it possibly the end of August? Does any other farmer reading this imagine the summer will last forever, but by the time the cows are all out, the silage is collected, the sheds are empty of muck and the straw is almost lugged… they have ran out of […]
Curlew Summit, No. 10 Downing Street, 8th July, 2019 – Blog by Project Manager, Amanda Perkins In my last blog, I promised to write more about the Curlew Summit at No 10 Downing Street. We were still very active with seasonal activities at the time of the summit. Whilst not […]
Blog by Amber Bicheno, Project Assistant On Monday the 29th July, our 33 headstarted curlew were finally released into the wild. The day was many months in the making and changed frequently due to numerous factors out of our control. Originally, we hoped for 2, maybe even 3, releases of […]
