Curlew Country Incubation Tour
https://youtu.be/kRfKTWgf4IM Follow along with our former project officer Amber as she talks about the incubation process we follow with our headstarted curlew eggs.
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Curlew Egg Candling
https://youtu.be/mwm49hdofDg A short video from Curlew Country about candling the eggs during the headstarting progress. Ideally we would like to work towards natural nest recovery, however for this to succeed we need to work with policy makers improving farmer support, which takes time to achieve. In the mean time, headstarting can help to boost and
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Curlew Pen Building (Indoor & Outdoor) 3
https://youtu.be/3LpQb-hS82E A compilation video (3 of 3) of activities and tasks done in order to prepare the indoor and outdoor pens for the pending curlew chicks.
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Curlew Outdoor Pen Building 2
https://youtu.be/SgNnahfiPB4 A compilation video (2 of 3) of all the activities and tasks we got up to in our continued efforts to assemble and prepare the indoor and outdoor pens for the pending curlew chicks.
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Curlew Outdoor Pen Building 1
https://youtu.be/YXkJYnGUZXQ This video (1 of 3) shows the building of outdoor pens for juvenile curlew chicks.
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Headstarting Class of 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TEUucecu3M&feature=youtu.be Meet the 2022 cohort of headstarted Curlew chicks from Curlew Country and follow along with their progress.
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2018 Release Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QerxT4aWSpQ A video by Curlew Country of the 2018 cohort of headstarted curlew being released.
Drawing the Curlew – Elspeth Powell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRUnB5dPQEc Follow along as Curlew Country trainee Elspeth Powell draws the beautiful Curlew.
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2021 Chick Release Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyVThb73KL4 Watch as some of the 33 headstarted Curlew raised by Curlew Country in 2021 are released into the wild for the first time.
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Curlew Vocalisations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHBkLlBVFo Learn about the hidden meaning behind the varied calls and songs of the enigmatic Curlew.
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Breeding Curlews and Farming: Curlew Cocktail
We are often asked about the challenges for breeding curlews and farmers on farmland and why farmers cannot just stop what they are doing. Farmland curlews have big territories and nest in different fields owned by different people year to year. Adults and broods wander over wide areas, moving frequently between different fields/landowners or managers.
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2024 Field Season – Caleb Stradling: Assistant Ornithologist
Nest and chick monitoring 2024 Just as the first of our Shropshire curlews were arriving back on their breeding grounds in March, I performed my own annual migration from Norwich back to Curlew Country, taking advantage of the short grass to start surveying returning birds and identify them by their colour rings. This was a
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