The curlew is fast disappearing from its habitats around the country but there is hope and estates in the Yorkshire Dales are working to increase their numbers. Ruby Kitchen reports.
A curlew’s haunting call is the sound of the Dales, piping piercing and clear in its sorrow. While elsewhere in the country, in its rapid decline, its song falls silent and still. But now, as one of the species’ “last strongholds”, the sporting estates of the Yorkshire Dales where the wading birds still thrive are to open their doors for curlew ‘safaris’.
Curlew are four times as likely to fledge a chick successfully on a grouse moor as on similar habitat without gamekeepers, scientific research has shown. This, findings suggests, comes down to predator control, habitat management, and close working with local farmers. “They are ground nesting birds,” said Mr Sleightholm simply. “Everything wants to eat them, or to trample them. “Our gamekeepers are passionate about grouse and about all the birds.
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