Curlew River
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2023
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Fabulous work and congratulations on your success so far.
Beautiful good luck. Thanks for helping this poor endangered creature. Hope it’s not in vain😢
How wonderful 👏🏼👏🏼💗💓💕🇦🇺💗💓💕
Fantastic bird! On the endangered species list in the Netherlands as well. Destroyed by highly industrialized agriculture. Throughout northern Europe it is not doing well. You managed 37 chicks to hatch! Congratulations! I am very proud of you. UK government should spend more money on wildlife improvements, habitat restoration, support for volunteers and help the volunteers to reach out to an even wider audience. This video is doing a great job at that.
You do realize you're talking about a conservative government. Unless there is money to be made, they don't give a sh!t.
@@drawyrral We have a left-liberal government. Unless there is money to be made and prestige to be gained, they don't give a sh!t.
@@alwaysfourfun1671I must be thinking of a different country.
@drawyrral You're not. The now ultra-liberal Tories are broadly useless with Nature but I wouldn't let Labour loose with it either. All the mainstream parties are tosh imo.
All this great work is largely down to the amazing efforts of ordinary people, not politics.
This is such a fantastic project, great job!
I live in North Kent. We used to have hundreds of Curlew in the creek. All gone now!
Great video. So glad farmers are cooperating!
Brilliant, love stuff like this 👍🏻
Great work ppl ❤
Excellent film. Excellent work. Well done for creating the film. Good luck with your amazing curlew conservation efforts.
Watching this on Christmas Day and with so many emotions not merely for people I fondly remember who have since passed, but also for the Curlews. I’m glad somebody owned up and spoke about the predator issues facing them and some of the solutions that are currently available. Intriguingly in my own studies predatory bird numbers and their biomass effects fluctuate widely through the season. Representative predatory population counts vary from as low as 5 per cent to 26 per cent throughout the year. Bear in mind I’m not counting every single Rook or Jackdaw, I merely mark them as a present and allocate a one to such birds. So many hungry mouths, claws and teeth to rob them of their young, but never a clear-cut one fits all conservation approach. Happy Christmas and thanks for a wonderful film.
I Love Curlews too. I lived on the Thames at Tilbury and as a kid I was a bird watcher and it was one of the high-lights of going out birdwatching. Thankfully there seems to be more around these days than there were back then?
Sadly there are a lot fewer, down by 50% in past 25 years. Many of their breeding and wintering sites are under some sort of threat so we need to do all we can to help them. Best wishes.
Wonderful piece. Love to see projects like these succeed for such an iconic species. Best wishes on all your recovery efforts
Thank you for your work. Might want to concentrate making the improved area a lot bigger, more food supply will certainly mean more birds. Get the farmers to do some fox removal.
the foxes have a place also and are key to the environmental health of the area. the effects of a species can be much more far reaching then its immediate interactions. learn ecology mate
youve magpies crow s badges foxes even hedge hogs you have to strike balance
Can you not take one egg from each nest and hatch it in an incubator? Then raise the chicks til they can fly and let them go.
some projects do this - 'head-starting', can make a contribution - but our approach is to give the birds the best chance of succeeding with the minumum level of intervention.
@@upperthameswadergroup5665 you have to step in before the gene pool degrades but accourding to my counts that has already occurred with the pop below 200
why not collect the eggs like they do with the crocks in florida raise them up tilll they can fly then let them go in the place they were collected at least till you have a stable pop.
I can't see how electric fences are 'natural habitat'. I want to feel positive about these good people's efforts but surely the clue lies in that canalised river. In nature it would have spread out and meandered creating damp, reed-bedded environments. Then, ground nesting birds perhaps would stand a chance without human intervention possibly.?
In England, Curlews are usually associated with habitats managed by man and have been able to adapt to breed in meadows and pasture along the Thames. The fencing is effective but hopefully only needed while the population recovers.