Curlew Country is the UK Lowland Curlew Recovery project, operating in the Shropshire Hills and Welsh Marches. We work together with local farmers, landowners and communities to deliver real results for Curlew. We are now looking for a dedicated volunteer to join our team for the next season, to help […]
As reported at the Curlew Forum meeting in November 2019, and in the Curlew Forum Newsletter 8 (under ‘Decrease in wintering Curlews on the south coast’), a planning application is currently with Havant Borough Council, Hampshire for a housing development at Campdown, Crookhorn/Bedhampton, Havant. The proposed development would result in […]
During the winter of 2015/16, a BTO/WWT team caught and colour-ringed 41 adult wintering Curlew in the general area of the Usk Estuary, between Newport and Cardiff, in south Wales. The purpose of the work, supported by Tidal Lagoon Power, was to study the local movements of the birds to […]
The RSPB’s major Trial Management Project involves studies of breeding Curlews at six upland sites in Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. The Welsh study site is at Ysbyty Ifan near Bettws-y-Coed; for background details on the Welsh work see (on this website) the reports presented by David Smith and […]
On Saturday Nov 16th the Welsh Ornithological Society held its 30th anniversary meeting in Aberystwyth University. Iolo Williams gave a fun-filled round up of the birds in Wales over the last 30 years, with good and bad news, but sadly most of it bad. Tim Birkhead presented a history of […]
Since being released at WWT Slimbridge in July/August this year, 38 of the 50 (76%) headstarted Curlew have been resighted on at least one occasion. Whilst it is obviously impossible to say what has happened to the 12 that haven’t been seen, recent sightings give cause to be optimistic regarding […]
The Worcestershire Wildlife Trust held an event about the The Hardwick Green Meadows Project, called ‘Our Floodplain meadows through Time’ on October 22nd 2019. The Hardwick Green Meadows Project began after this floodplain meadows site was purchased in 2017 by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk. It is one of around 70 […]
The legend of St Beuno explains why it is so hard to find the nest of the Curlew: As a matter of fact it is the fault of St Beuno. When he lived at Clynnog he used to go regularly on Sunday to preach at Llanddwyn, off the coast of […]
Presentation by Ian Duncan to the Worcester Curlew Group at its meeting at the headquarters of Worcestershire Wildlife Trust in October 2019: Worcestershire Curlews: Ian Duncan (PDF).
