A comprehensive project is underway in the Shropshire Hills and Welsh Marches area involving field studies of breeding Curlews, co-operation with farmers and extensive involvement of the local community; for details see https://curlewcountry.org/
Shropshire Hills and Welsh Marches – Curlew Nest Monitoring Report 2016 (large PDF)
See the presentation Stiperstones and Corndon Hill County Landscape Partnership Scheme (Curlew Country): Tony Cross, Project Ornithologist (PDF) given at the Slimbridge Conference in February 2017.