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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 2025. 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.
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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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...
Bird Group Meetings 2023
The 10 Community Wildlife Groups will all continue with their bird surveys to monitor the Curlew population, and several other target species. These surveys locate the Curlew breeding territories for the nest-finders in the project areas, so they are vitally...
Butterfly & Moth Festival 2022 – reminder
This is a reminder that the ‘Our Upland Commons’ project will be a holding a series of Butterfly and Moth events during spring and summer this year on the Long Mynd, Stiperstones and Clee Liberty Common. Please see the attached leaflet (PDF) for details of the events...