Curlew & Lapwing Survey
Lapwing and Curlew have both suffered a massive contraction in range and population decline in the last 20 years or so, nationally and locally. Curlew has been described as the UK’s highest bird conservation priority, as we have an estimated 28% of the European breeding population, and 19 – 27% of the world population.
The RVCWG area has been divided up into 26 tetrads (2×2 kilometre squares, each made up of four of the one-kilometre squares shown on Ordnance Survey maps).
