Curlew Blog

Curlew Champions – Final Curlew Cam day

Posted on by Amber Bicheno
Blog by Amanda Perkins, Curlew Country Project Manager  Thank you to the many people who have sent positive messages about the Curlew Cam.  Unlike tree nesting birds observed by a camera, the natural departure of curlew chicks from the nest is much more abrupt and has left viewers wanting to see more of what happens to them next.  We left the camera running in case the bird...
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A Day’s Visit to Curlew Country’s Nest Monitoring

Posted on by Amber Bicheno
On Monday 29th May, 2017, some of the Curlew Country team were joined by Tim Main. Tim along with others had been in touch about curlew sightings outside the Curlew Country boundaries in Shropshire. Tim came out in the hope that learning more about Curlew could lead him to help learn more about curlew behaviour and how, with some support from us it may be possible to help the n...
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Adventures in Radio Tracking

Posted on by Amber Bicheno
Amber Bicheno, Stiperstones and Corndon LPS Trainee, has been assisting with the Curlew Country Project in 2017. Find out what she’s been doing with the team this week (07/06/2017).   This was the next step. It meant we had made it, at least a little further, in successfully getting some nests to hatching stage. This in itself feels like quite a feat after the depressing...
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A day out with Curlew Country… by Heather Scott

Posted on by Amber Bicheno
Heather Scott, a placement student gaining work experience as part of a Harper Adams University Countryside Management Course spent some time with Tony Cross, ornithologist and Amanda Perkins, project manager on Monday 15th May.  She has written a piece about her experience. We started out from the office at about mid-day as Mandi had to catch up on urgent paperwork. As w...
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Outside Insights… A visit from Slimbridge

Posted on by Amber Bicheno
On Monday 22nd May, Mike Smart from the ‘Call of the Curlew, Slimbridge Symposium’ group visited the project. Mandi and Tony had been privileged to go with Mike and Natalie Meyer from the NABU project looking around wader nesting sites in Gloucester and Worcester, before they all participated in the Slimbridge symposium the following day. Dear Amanda and Tony Thank yo...
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Blog for GWCT

Posted on by Amber Bicheno
In April 2017, Amanda Perkins Curlew Country Project Manager wrote a blog for the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust to help them launch an appeal for requests of curlew sightings across the UK Curlew Country The project is one of 14 that make up the Stiperstones and Corndon Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS). Habitat within the scheme area includes moorland and grassland...
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