We have lost almost half of our breeding Curlews during the last 20 years and a scientific paper, just published in the journal Bird Study, looks at the reasons why. The UK holds almost a third of the global breeding population of Curlew. Declines here have been greatest in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Ireland the breeding range has contracted by a massive 78%. As a result of...

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