The recent News items on recoveries of Welsh ringed birds in Finland and Poland have provoked some interesting exchanges of view about movement of birds through the Baltic en route to and from their northern breeding grounds. See the comments from Tony Fox in Denmark (PDF) and Adriaan De Jong […]

Question from Mike Smart (14/05/2017): Juliet Bailey and I found an apparently predated nest in the Severn Vale in early May (much too early for the eggs to have hatched even in an early year like 2017); the nest had been ripped up, and had two broken eggs, in very […]

The following notes on finding Curlews’ nests were provided by several experienced field workers, in response to a request from Barry O’Donoghue of the Irish National Parks Service, as a contribution for the planning of the 2018 monitoring season. As noted by Barry, “Different regions and probably different sites will […]