Curlew Country is the UK Lowland Curlew Recovery project, operating in the Shropshire Hills and Welsh Marches. We work together with local farmers, landowners and communities to deliver real results for curlew. We are now looking for an assistant headstarter to join our team for the next season to help us secure a future […]
Back in October 2021 we were approached by Sydney Olympic Park in Australia, after seeing Curlew Country’s origami Curlew video they wanted to create their own video and worksheet based on our design for world migratory bird week. At Curlew Country we love knowing that we can inspire people from all across the world, to
An Aussie Collaboration Read More »
It has been a few months now since Curlew Country released their latest group of young headstarted Curlew. They’ve had time to feed up, explore and get to grips with their new flight capabilities – learning to fill those big wader footprints! After the release in early August, we were thrilled to see some of
We have been so fortunate to have Madeleine and Elspeth our two volunteer trainees working with us this season. Headstarting work is testing and there have been further unwelcome ups and downs in the journey. Both have done an amazing job and Madeleine has put in extra efforts to help during other staff absence, when
Each season I hear the familiar phrase ‘leave it to mother nature’, well intended in its delivery. I hear it from one or more people not convinced that curlew interventions are necessary. I am always taken aback, unknowing how to respond quickly on the detail of the huge subject of biodiversity that occupies many minds
Leave it to Mother Nature? Read More »
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
Curlew Nesting Behaviour Read More »
The wait is over, thank you for everyone who has joined the Curlew pair on Curlew Cam to watch their amazing diligent parenting through the incubation stages, and especially to Peter in Canada who wrote the first email I opened this morning to say that one chick had arrived safely. After 28 days of waiting
Curlew Cam Blog – from Curlew Country Manager, Amanda Perkins Read More »
Curlew Country is fortunate to work with an enthusiastic and capable band of volunteers, growing year on year. We have been delighted to welcome a number of new recruits helping us to find Curlew in their territories early on in the season and now to have another blog from one of them. Our volunteers have
Volunteer Insights – Curlew Observation with Steve and Dawn Read More »
It’s 5.30am, I was out checking cows who are due to calf when I came across a cow balling in the next field along, where the cows with baby calves at foot resident. The mother was making a right fuss and I soon realised why; her two-week old baby had slipped through the gorse bush
Farming Diaries – Guest blog from Rhi Pinches Read More »
Curlew Country welcomes the second trainee headstarter. Elspeth is from one of our Farming Partner families and has been one of several of a younger generation attending our meetings because of their fascination with Curlews. We rely on Elspeth’s knowledge to tell us where the pair that nest on her farm have settled. Many of
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