Country Diary
Jun 15, 2022
2 minutes
Patrick Laurie
Where I farm in Galloway, curlew numbers seem to be declining every year. There are a number of drivers for this collapse, not least the rapid expansion of commercial forestry in our uplands and a dramatic ramping up of grassland management.
During the course of the spring, I set out to run a survey of the birds across a 650km2 river catchment that runs from the Solway Firth
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