Bringing threatened Curlew back from the brink in Northern Ireland | RSPB
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Since the late 1980s curlew populations have crashed in Northern Ireland. But we’re determined to buck the trend and, in 2022, a record number of chicks were fledged on the grasslands of Glenwherry on the Antrim Plateau. Join Conservation Officer Katie Gibb for a personal account of how the team and local farmers are bringing these birds back from the brink.
Seeing your smile of pure happiness as you came out of the tent brought tears to my eyes. We are so lucky there are people as passionate as yourself that do such good work for great causes. I live in Cornwall and am lucky enough to see and hear Curlews landing in the farmers field opposite my house. I too love their call. After watching this film I am very worried about their welfare. Thank you for such an informative video.
One of my favourite birds, and bird call. Thanks for your work.
This is brilliant! Well done to the team, farmers and all involved.
incredible to see someone so passionate about what they do being able to this day in day out. You are one of the lucky ones Katie Gibb, and so are all the curlews you look after :)
Awesome, well done and great to see the farmers on board with this
Brilliant work💕😁
My favourite bird and I’m lucky to see and hear them daily. How come the Strangford Lough colony don’t get spoken about. Our numbers here are definitely on the increase
We should make all farming nature friendly, what a difference it would make to biodiversity,
Well done, and thank you
Well done ,more birds to be brought back from the brink.!
I see curlew near my house and hear them all the time
In terms of predators, we need to be asking how we have created the conditions for these predators to flourish. Farming methods and land management is where the answer lies for a natural solution rather than predator control on a similar level to grouse moors.
How long has the RSPB been protecting Curlews?
for the last few decades they may reply but strangely out of their 200 + reserves the curlew populations have become either locally extinct or well on their way to being so.