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    At the heart of curlew recovery

    Apr 14, 2021 4 minutes

    In January 2016, I began planning a 500-mile walk across Ireland, Wales and England to try to find out more about the plight of the Eurasian curlew. I had read the British Birds paper from December 2015 (The Eurasian curlew — the most pressing bird conservation priority in the UK?, Brown et al), and had been increasingly worried by Birdwatch Ireland press releases arriving on my desk at the BBC Natural History Unit. These horror stories screamed emergency — the Emerald Isle was witnessing a 90% decline in numbers since the 1980s, and now

    Numenius arquata was red-listed in the UK. The beautiful curlew seemed to be edging closer to oblivion.

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    I couldn’t understand what was happening and why

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