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As I write this the first curlew are returning to their breeding grounds in the UK. We welcome around 25% of the world’s breeding population each spring but without urgent intervention, this beautiful bird may soon become nothing more than a memory.
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After two consecutive years of intensive curlew nest monitoring in the New Forest, it’s now clear that foxes pose the greatest threat to curlew nest survival in our study area. Of the 41 curlew nests monitored with cameras in 2021 and 2022, 25 failed due to predation, and 17 of these were attributed to foxes.
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Curlew breeding and wintering numbers are declining in Hampshire and periodic surveys of breeding waders in the New Forest suggest that the curlew population probably peaked in the 1980s at about 120 pairs, but has since declined to about 45 pairs.
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If we want to stop the curlew going the way of many other birds, such as the corncrake and the nightjar, we are going to need Defra to allow landowners to resume protecting the curlew’s young on their most important breeding grounds.
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he RSPB is right to call in gamekeepers and follow the evidence (Rod Liddle - Royal Society for the Protection of (some) Birds. Not you, crow - you must die in agony, August 12) that predation can and does impact curlew populations. Our upland experiment predicted that predation control can nearly double curlew numbers in five years but, without it, they are facing local extinctions.
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As we draw ever closer to leaving the European Union and reinventing our environmental schemes, much has been said about the intricate details of how much support farmers receive, where it comes from and what it rewards. Paperwork, prescription and perfect timing.
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