Projects & Campaigns
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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Latest news
Bird Surveys in 2022
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...
Save our Curlews Campaign and Appeal
We have raised most of the money we need to carry out the project in all these areas in 2022, from SOS itself, donations to the Appeal, and some grants, but we still need to raise a few thousand pounds more to do all that we would like to, particularly to start work...
Curlew surveys and project work 2021
The Upper Clun, Clee Hill and Strettons area Community Wildlife groups worked with the Shropshire Ornithological Society Save our Curlews campaign, to find nests, protect them with electric fences, and radio-tag and track chicks, to find out what happens to them....