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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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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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
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New Learning Hub Curlew Country is launching its new learning hub. It includes a range of activities, quizzes and school lesson resources click the link below Visit Our New Learning Hub Just the thing for a wet and foggy day like it is in Curlew Country. Some of the educational activities are designed to be
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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
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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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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
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To read part 1 of Tiny Tim’s tale click here The morning arrived and we were up at the stables for 8.30am, ready to get stuck into our cleaning and feeding duties. A quick look into each tank showed everybody accounted for, Tiny sitting down amongst the others of his brood, not unusual on occasion
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It is not often that we name our Curlew chicks. For the most part we refer to them by their coloured band, preferring not to get overly attached to our small, fluffy charges. This does not in any way mean they do not present differing individual personality traits. As many of our volunteers will attest,
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What does JP do all day? Specialist Generalist – Farmer liaison – Facilitator So Monday morning! First job of the day was to beg, borrow or steal an emergency de-humidifier and deliver it to Egg HQ, where it’s to be used to help control moisture levels in the incubator room. I managed to borrow one
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