15 September 2020 – First report Exminster Marshes RSPB reserve First report on this week’s big tides of a roost count from James Diamond. He reports that the evening of 15 September had a roost of 50 Curlews including three colour-ringed birds: Two birds ringed on the Exe in Feb/March […]
Following this news item in February 2020: https://www.curlewcall.org/second-lisbon-airport-biggest-threat-to-a-wader-site-in-the-east-atlantic/ here are the latest developments. On 18 March 2020 the European Commission Directorate-General for Environment – Nature Protection Unit responded with this letter: 20200917 Ares rn 1629610-Reply (PDF). On 19 August 2020 Mike Smart replied on behalf of the Curlew Forum Steering […]
There are some monster tides coming up in the next few days, from about 17 to 22 September. These tides will, it is hoped, give opportunities to catch up with reading of colour-rings on Curlews, which have lapsed during the past Covid summer. On coasts and estuaries in autumn and […]
Devoran on the Fal estuary in Cornwall is a site where observers, under the leadership of Mark Grantham, regularly look out for wintering Curlews, especially those with colour-rings. Two colour-ringed birds have been regular visitors to Devoran in recent winters, showing yet again the well-known site fidelity of wintering Curlews. […]
Following a talk given by Mary Colwell at the 2019 Rutland Bird Fair on the work of Curlew Forum to conserve lowland Curlews, several of the audience suggested that the talk was worth publishing more widely. The text was duly revised and expanded, and appeared under the signature of the […]
Curlews nest on grassland, so why not on golf courses? Rosemary Thompson has sent us the attached pictures of Curlews nesting on the Colne Golf Club at Colne in Lancashire. She comments: “The groundsmen spotted the nest and roped it off, and the tees were rearranged so that that they […]
Message from Stephen Martin: You may have heard about the disastrous wildfire over Darwen Moor, near Bolton, Lancashire, (2.5km²) last weekend (30/31 May). Survey work has always established a good density of breeding Curlew in that section of the West Pennine Moors (up to 6 pairs/km²). The loss of an […]
Asham Meadow is a traditional hay meadow along the River Avon, near the village of Eckington in Worcestershire. It is one of the few remaining ‘Lammas Meadows’ still active in the country. Lammas Meadows are operated on a strip system that goes back to the Middle Ages, with different owners […]
Richard Tyler has taken some fascinating pictures of flies’ eggs on a hatching Curlew egg – not an occurrence that is widely noted in the literature. He and others have been monitoring a Curlew’s nest on the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire – in itself a rare event, of which more below. […]
Nowadays most nesting Curlews in Worcestershire are found in the floodplain of the Severn and Avon, where they breed in hay meadows with a late hay cut, which generally allows them to bring off their chicks before the hay is brought in. But today’s floodplain nesters probably originated in the […]
