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 […]
2024 Field Season – Caleb Stradling: Assistant Ornithologist Read More »
2023 Field Season: Assistant Ornithologist – Caleb Stradling Hello fellow Curlew lovers! My name is Caleb and I’ve just joined the Curlew Country team this year as an Assistant Ornithologist. I am an MSc student of Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia, where I am learning how to apply various survey methods
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New beginnings – Eggs, Returning Chicks and New Collaborations – Amanda Perkins Curlew Nest Finding After a late spring, the first egg was still found at around the usual time in late April. Ornithologist Tony Cross managed to find and collect many eggs to be headstarted in the first few weeks of May. It is
Mid-May Curlew Season Update 2023 Read More »
Celebrate World Curlew Day 2023 in Curlew Country! Come for a walk and learn about Curlew with a good chance of spotting one. Join Amanda Perkins and James Warrington for a guided walk in Curlew Country. Come and learn about the Curlew from the specialists, with a good chance of hearing and perhaps spotting local
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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
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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
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
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A trip through the local hills of the Curlew Country area may see you pulling in to the Stiperstones Inn for some well earned refreshments, but beware… sightings of a giant 6 foot Curlew roaming the car park have been coming in thick and fast. If you catch a glimpse, we would love to see
Giant Curlew Spotted on World Curlew Day Read More »
Tomorrow, 21st April is World Curlew Day Curlew Country Manager, Amanda Perkins will be on BBC Radio Shropshire at 8.35am tomorrow talking about this year’s work and our activities for the day. At 7.00pm in the evening the newly formed Curlew Recovery Partnership is holding its first webinar. The speakers will be Mary Colwell, Dr
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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 a volunteer headstarting trainee to join our team for the next season, to help and learn with us.
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