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Save our curlewsWe need more helpers, so anyone who can recognise Curlew and Lapwing should get involved, please
About the campaign
The campaign is supporting and encouraging all of the Community Wildlife Groups (except Kemp Valley, which has no breeding Curlews) across Shropshire to monitor Curlews.
The groups continued with their surveys in 2023. Clee Hill and Abdon extended their areas, to close the gap between them and monitor known additional Curlew territories.
The Curlew distribution map from the County Bird Atlas 2008-13, overlain with the Community Wildlife Group areas, can be found here.
For more information about the “Save our Curlews” campaign, please visit the SOS website.
In 2019…
Tetrads covered
Participants
Curlew territories identified
Survey
Submit Your Sightings
Curlew sightings are still needed to allow us to continue developing our understanding of the Curlew population in Shropshire. If you do see a Curlew please use the form below to send us this important information. See Latest News for any further updates.
Many thanks, Leo Smith.
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Latest news
URGENT Save our Curlews 2024 appeal – more donations needed please
To date, the appeal has raised far less than we hoped, and we are still well short of what we need to implement the project, due to start at the end of next month. Please read on …
Save our Curlews Campaign and Appeal 2023
Community Wildlife Groups are working with the Shropshire Ornithological Society (SOS) Save our Curlews campaign, to find nests, protect them with electric fences, and fix radio-tags to the resulting chicks and track them to see how they use the landscape. Project...
Curlew Monitoring – 2021
An important part of the SOS “Save our Curlews” campaign is knowing how many breeding pairs there are, where they are, and the population trends across the County. In 2019, around 94 – 115 pairs were found altogether, the vast majority of the County population. Over...