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New research says long-billed curlews listen to alarm barks from prairie dog colonies to protect themselves from predators.
Conservationists are warning of an increase in recent weeks of the nesting sites of endangered breeding waders, such as the ...
locating and protecting curlew and other wading bird nests, and moving chicks to safety before they harvest crops or cut fields. Curlew numbers in Wales have declined sharply and it is predicted ...
The Eurasian curlew could be gone in Wales as a "viable breeding species" by 2033 if a 6% annual decline continues, experts warn. The thermal imagine drones spot heat from nests hidden in deep ...
The curlew’s call is not a sound I grew up with ... Such is the desperate plight of these birds, especially vulnerable because they nest on the ground, that researchers began to collect eggs ...
Diane Clarke, who was part of the team that saved four curlew nests last year, from which eleven chicks successfully hatched, spoked about her rewarding experience as one of the first volunteers ...
The long-billed curlew nests in short-grass prairie and incubates eggs on a ground nest. When one hears the prairie dog alarm, she responds by pressing her head, beak and belly close to the ground.
Curlew researchers once depended on leg tags to identify birds and understand their migrations Drones have been buzzing over Welsh wetlands this year as researchers try to find curlew nests and ...