A landmark conservation initiative aimed at saving the iconic curlew from extinction in Ireland has been launched on an island in Lough Corrib.

A small team of conservationists, biodiversity specialists and bird researchers has found that it is likely a third species of bird has gone extinct in the Western Palaearctic—a large area of land ...

Ireland’s curlew population is set to be supplemented by eggs transported from the Yorkshire Dales in a new partnership ...

A man is walking 53 miles (85km) in a homemade bird costume to raise awareness and funds for conservation projects. Matt Trevelyan, a farming officer for Nidderdale National Landscape, began the ...

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Researchers from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Migratory Bird Center (SMBC) and partners are celebrating the start of migration this month with a single long-billed curlew they ...

There is renewed hope for one of Northern Ireland's most endangered birds after a record-breaking breeding season. Sixty-nine curlew chicks were recorded at Glenwherry, County Antrim during 2022, said ...

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St Dogmael’s, Pembrokeshire I could hear the haunting call of a curlew – faintly, distantly, yet it still had a power to arrest and hold my attention. It bubbled up as though from the water itself, ...