1/2 Curlew – wonderfully charismatic, desperately threatened and in need of urgent action if they are to remain part of our landscape. That’s why the launch of the UK Curlew Species Action Plan yesterday in the House of Lords is so important. #Ornithology #Curlew

⭐️An exciting opportunity for a fully funded PhD with BTO British Trust for Ornithology and Liverpool John Moores University, to study the population-level movement patterns of over-wintering #Curlew!⭐️ #ornithology #movementecology

Not long now until the first of the 2025 cohort in Norfolk are released. Where will they end up? #waders #shorebirds #curlew

2/ This news comes as a BTO led review in @waderstudy.bsky.social shows headstarting can increase survival at egg and chick stages, critical for Curlew recovery. Post-release monitoring is needed to fully understand recruitment back into breeding populations.➡️ bit.ly/CurlewReview

1/ Exciting news! Previously released headstarted Curlew have turned up at breeding sites, mainly in East Anglia, this year with 10 birds confirmed breeding and another dozen showing breeding-type behaviour. #Ornithology 🌍 🌐 Read the blog ➡️ www.curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk/breeding-rec...

New paper in @waderstudy.bsky.social led by @btobirds.bsky.social reviewing headstarting across Europe as a tool for #Curlew #conservation Read the blog post: www.curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk/european-hea... Read the open access paper: www.waderstudygroup.org/article/18880/ #waders #shorebirds

1/ Have you seen these Curlew? Please report any Curlew you see with yellow leg flags ➡️ bit.ly/ReportACurlew Here’s why these birds are so special. ⬇️ #WorldCurlewDay #Ornithology 🌍

1/ The first of this year’s Curlew nests have been spotted by our team in the Yorkshire Dales! It won’t be long until the eggs hatch into adorable chicks like this one. Discover more about our work monitoring and tracking Curlew. ⬇️ #WorldCurlewDay #Ornithology

Absolutely shocking decision from the Government to axe the Sustainable Farming Incentive. We need to be increasing funding for nature friendly farming, not cutting schemes. This is a dereliction of duty towards farmers and the natural world. @nfudc.bsky.social www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

The Waveney and Little Ouse Recovery project is a trailblazer and should be used as a model for natural flood management nationwide. I have written to the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs urging his department to maintain its support for the project. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

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Our eighth talk is 'Headstarting Curlews in Norfolk (England)' by Chrissie Kelley from Pensthorpe & @modelbirder.bsky.social from @btobirds.bsky.social The project is working in Norfolk to take eggs from airbases that were scheduled for destruction & rearing them for release as headstarted curlews

1/ This week, BTO’s @samanthafranks.bsky.social is at the @curlewaction.bsky.social European Curlew headstarting workshop. We’ll be sharing a review of #Curlew headstarting projects in Europe. So what is headstarting? ⬇️ #Ornithology

Our fifth talk is 'A review of curlew headstarting projects in Europe' by Dr @samanthafranks.bsky.social from @btobirds.bsky.social The team used questionnaire & data request responses to review the reasons for, the methods used, & outcomes of 11 headstarting projects from 5 European countries.

Any other #birding #ornithology parents on here? One year of maternity leave later, looking forward to making sure our kids love #birds. But especially #waders #shorebirds!

It's back to work after a year of maternity leave. Has the social media world ever changed! Guess I better try this whole @bsky.app thing. Bye bye Twitter/X.