The Shropshire Ornithological Society’s (SOS) ‘Save Our Curlews’ project, which was initiated in 2018, aims to find Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata nests in Shropshire, protect them from predation with an electric fence, and to radio tag and track chicks to find out what happens to them – and how they use the landscape. Failure of chicks to fledge is a major cause of Curlew decl

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