Curlew Blog

Curlew Cam

Public Meeting 2025 @ Norbury Village Hall

Leave a Comment / Curlew Blog, Curlew Country, Curlew News /

Curlew Country has been working on the ground since 2015 to save the local Curlew population.  As an emergency measure to try and save the population from dying out, it has put in place an intervention known as headstarting and returned 150 chicks to the natural environment. 

Come and find out if we can save our local but significant lowland Curlew population with Amanda Perkins, Curlew Country Lead; Tony Cross Consultant Ornithologist and Caleb Stradling, Project Officer.

Public Meeting 2025 @ Norbury Village Hall Read More »

Protecting curlew chicks on farmland

Breeding Curlews and Farming: Curlew Cocktail

Leave a Comment / Curlew Blog /

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.

Breeding Curlews and Farming: Curlew Cocktail Read More »

2024 Field Season – Caleb Stradling: Assistant Ornithologist

Leave a Comment / Curlew Blog, Curlew News /

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: New Assistant Ornithologist

Leave a Comment / Curlew Blog, Curlew News /

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

2023 Field Season: New Assistant Ornithologist Read More »

A surprising start to the Curlew breeding season

Leave a Comment / Curlew Blog, Uncategorized /

Tony is a seasoned volunteer ringer, who has subsequently taught and tested others in the vigorous methodology learnt over years to ensure bird safety and well-being. He had already caught two Curlew earlier in the day and the good fortune continued with another four captured briefly and ringed swiftly and carefully before placing them gently

A surprising start to the Curlew breeding season Read More »

Victory on the pitch and over 100 reached off it

Leave a Comment / Curlew Blog /

On Sunday whilst ‘normal people’ cheered the Lionesses on to their historic victory, Ornithologist Tony, Assistant aviculturist Katie, Trainees Jake & Becca and I released 11 chicks at a Welsh estuary bathed in late evening sunshine.  The sounds of other Curlews could be heard feeding and squabbling in the near distance and most of our

Victory on the pitch and over 100 reached off it Read More »

Skip to content