Getting to know your Curlew The lady in the illustration is Mrs Irene Gibbons, of Aberedw [Radnorshire]. She would cross the field every day, and eventually could stop and look at the Curlew on its nest, then stroke it, and finally would be allowed to remove the eggs, look at […]
Have you seen a colour ringed Curlew? Please help us to find our birds. Colour ringing is an important method to track and gather data about threatened bird species. Ornithologist Tony Cross has been working to colour ring Curlew for several years now, and we are keen to hear about […]
The Curlew Recovery Partnership is a new, exciting and transformative initiative, bringing together all those with an interest in Curlew conservation, including land managers, farmers, gamekeepers, policymakers and researchers. They are joining forces to help secure the future of one of England’s most iconic and threatened species, the Eurasian Curlew. […]
An unfamiliar colour-ringed Curlew was sighted by Scott Petrek of WWT on 19 February 2021 at Slimbridge. The combination of colours did not fit with any of the combinations regularly seen on the Severn estuary. The bird was carrying a blue ring on its left tibia, a green ring over […]
in most years, Curlews begin to move from their wintering grounds on coastlines and estuaries back to inland breeding areas in February. This year the first returning birds appeared in the Severn and Avon Vales in the second half of the month; is it possible that the heavy flooding in […]
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 […]
The Upper Thames Wader Group recently held a Zoom meeting in preparation for fieldwork in the coming Curlew breeding season. Attached are links to the introductory talk by the Chair of the UTWG, Mike Pollard, and to the talk given by Rachel Taylor of BTO Cymru on her studies of […]
As reported in previous news items on Curlewcall, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust launched a Severn Vale Curlew project in spring 2019. The project involved both monitoring of wild breeding Curlews in the Severn Vale in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and raising young Curlews in aviaries from eggs taken from nests […]
Back in February 2020, a Curlew Recovery Summit was organised under the patronage of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales (who had already been patron of a summit on Dartmoor Curlews in December 2018). The participants included many of those who have previously featured on the pages of Curlewcall.org […]
