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New Job Opportunity: Curlew Country Project Manager

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Location Shropshire and Powys Salary £29,000 to £32,000 equivalent per annum based on experience and skill Benefits 10% Employer contribution to pension after 6-month probationary period Position Type Full Time. This is a fixed term contract to 31st December 2023, with the potential for extension, subject to funding. Working Pattern 37.5 hours per week – In the Curlew breeding season flexibility will …

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Lifetime Achievement Award for Ornithologist

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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 you need to know something …

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4 Curlew chicks caught to be radio tagged

Curlew Country Raffle

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In aid of the Curlew Country Appeal we are holding a raffle! Launched on the 21st April (World Curlew Day), it will be drawn 1 month later, on the 21st May. The money raised will go towards the continuation of the project’s vital curlew recovery work. In 2019 we are planning to continue with headstarting, …

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The Oakdale Saga – The challenge faced by farmers and chicks

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Wynford Jones and his wife Joyce were the first farmers to contact the Landscape Partnership Scheme when it was set up back in 2013. With my colleague John Brayford, I am responsible for the Farming Project and took the call. Wynford was in fact phoning not for advice, but to say that he was not …

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Until the last Curlew Calls… Blog by Mary Colwell Hector

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It was a bitter-sweet visit to the Curlew Country project in Shropshire on June 12th. It was a baking hot day, and for a couple of hours before lunch Amanda Perkins and Tony Cross from the project, Phil Sheldrake (RSPB), Mike Smart (ace birdwatcher) and myself tried to find three or four chicks that were …

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Outside Insights… A visit from Slimbridge

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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. …

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Blog for GWCT

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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 …

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Report a Curlew

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Have you seen or heard a Curlew? Then please fill in our reporting form below. The Shropshire Hills & Welsh Marches Curlew Recovery Project Please help us to find out where nesting Snipe, Lapwing (Peewit), and Curlew are so that we can carry on our essential monitoring work to try and save our local populations. …

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Curlew Appeal

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