Good luck - I wish you success. I vividly remember hearing my first curlew on holiday on the moors above Penrith many years ago. The big problem is farmers using too many insecticides: so many are is rapid decline. Silaging has been a disaster for wildlife! There are very few hay meadows & all the wildflowers left now.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
Wonderful and reassuring initiative and pleasing to see in the intensive urbanised southern England. Yes I see fewer now in the Pennines and Yorkshire dales and comments on farming silaging appear to threaten them. Best endeavours with this project. Is it being done elsewhere Simon Artley Manchester
Hi Simon, thanks for your comments. Yes lots happening across the country now. More info on the Curlew Recovery Partnership’s website, and likewise Curlew Action’s website.
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
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.
That's a good call, I know with many bird species, if you take the first clutch of eggs, the birds will lay again. The loss of habitat is very bad in the UK, intensive farming, made worse by the agricultural policies of the EU.
@@pauldurkee4764 I would love to move there and work in this effort im a biologist and environmental ecologist. the things they are starting to do are amazing people finally waking up that we are part of an environment. sand pipers are some of my favorite birds they are so cute we have a beach nesting problem here with all the folks sunbathing but we are starting to close beaches during sensitive times. best of luck mate
Already being done on the East coast of england, I brought this up during a meeting at our farm where we have just finished a project restoring a wetland habit designed to help curlew and other wildlife recover. It is frustrating watching Curlew spending the whole of Autumn and Winter on our farm, only to then raise chick's in a neighbouring farm where they cut for silage before the chick's have time to ledge. Hoping for better results the coming spring summer now we have finished the project.
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.
This is such a fantastic project, great job!
Well done with your efforts, i really enjoyed your video, good luck in the future
I live in North Kent. We used to have hundreds of Curlew in the creek. All gone now!
Love it. Beautifully presented. Good luck with the continued success of the project.
Good luck - I wish you success.
I vividly remember hearing my first curlew on holiday on the moors above Penrith many years ago.
The big problem is farmers using too many insecticides: so many are is rapid decline.
Silaging has been a disaster for wildlife! There are very few hay meadows & all the wildflowers left now.
Great video. So glad farmers are cooperating!
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.
@@alwaysfourfun1671 Troll
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
Beautiful good luck. Thanks for helping this poor endangered creature. Hope it’s not in vain😢
Brilliant, love stuff like this 👍🏻
Fabulous work and congratulations on your success so far.
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.
They make no mention of mink as a possible predator of curlew.
I was born in that river. Midwife had me swimming in there as a newborn
How wonderful 👏🏼👏🏼💗💓💕🇦🇺💗💓💕
Wonderful and reassuring initiative and pleasing to see in the intensive urbanised southern England.
Yes I see fewer now in the Pennines and Yorkshire dales and comments on farming silaging appear to threaten them.
Best endeavours with this project.
Is it being done elsewhere
Simon Artley
Manchester
Hi Simon, thanks for your comments. Yes lots happening across the country now. More info on the Curlew Recovery Partnership’s website, and likewise Curlew Action’s website.
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
@@marumiyuhime I read there are gazillion foxes now in the UK. It is all in proportion. What is the predator that keeps the cute fox in check?
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
youve magpies crow s badges foxes even hedge hogs you have to strike balance
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.
That's a good call, I know with many bird species, if you take the first clutch of eggs, the birds will lay again.
The loss of habitat is very bad in the UK, intensive farming, made worse by the agricultural policies of the EU.
@@pauldurkee4764 I would love to move there and work in this effort im a biologist and environmental ecologist. the things they are starting to do are amazing people finally waking up that we are part of an environment. sand pipers are some of my favorite birds they are so cute we have a beach nesting problem here with all the folks sunbathing but we are starting to close beaches during sensitive times. best of luck mate
Already being done on the East coast of england, I brought this up during a meeting at our farm where we have just finished a project restoring a wetland habit designed to help curlew and other wildlife recover. It is frustrating watching Curlew spending the whole of Autumn and Winter on our farm, only to then raise chick's in a neighbouring farm where they cut for silage before the chick's have time to ledge. Hoping for better results the coming spring summer now we have finished the project.
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.