In 2020, a team from the Institute for Waterbirds and Wetland Research (IWWR e.V) led by Dr Helmut Kruckenberg began a programme of marking nesting Curlews with satellite tags, which enable the movements of birds to be tracked over long periods. The maps of the routes taken by migrant Curlews […]

Today’s news item on satellite-tagged Curlews from Germany showed birds already on the move back from wintering areas in the UK and Spain to their breeding grounds. As might be expected, breeding birds are also returning to English lowland breeding sites: Along the Severn in Worcestershire, the first returnee was […]