Very simple.Sympathetic farming operations & thorough predator control.Foxes,Badgers,hedgehogs,stoats,crows & the Curlew will be common.

I really found this very inspiring speakers being a big fan of our Curlew ! thank you

Here in North Cumbria we have found 4 nests and 4 chicks have hatched this week. So some positivity

Thanks for sharing this. Very informative, I'm in my first year of curlew spotting. I have a nest on the stubble field behind my house

Really pleased to have found this - very informative and helpful. Guernsey has a small overwintering population of Curlew.

Plenty of commonsense comment especially from Ian Newton. Tree planting near me in Sutherland has had a detrimental effect on breeding Greenshanks. These areas are also fenced to stop grazing this drastically degrades the habitat and fosters predators. The local shepherd legally deployed two Larsen traps and caught 44 crows in three Spring months. Not one pair of locally breeding Greenshanks lost eggs to crows.

Really great account of head-starting Spoonbill Sandpipers. Good effort as long as their breeding, feeding and migration staging habitat is preserved. Same goes for all wader species.

I saw the animated movie on the ABC Afterschool Special in 1972. Never knew it was a book until I found one at a thrift store. Loved the sad story.

Curlews make my heart sing. Beautiful birds and I'm so lucky to live on the west pennine moors in Lancashire where I see them on a daily basis next to my house between March to the end of June.❤

The song is beautiful. I want to find it but I can't 😢

I am Fred Bodsworth's oldest Granddaughter and just came across this video today. My Grandfather was a big part of my life and I loved him very much. I am so glad my kids had the opportunity to know and love their Papa Fred. He was fascinating, intelligent, gentle, and humorous. I could tell you so many fun stories. We took many camping trips with him and my Grandmother Margaret and the rest of the family growing up and I remember those days of my childhood so fondly. He would have been very interested by the present political and post-Pandemic landscape which brings me to my favorite book of his "The Atonement of Ashley Morden" and the theme of super bugs. Just some thoughts... Miss you Gramps. Please feel free to reach out.

What's the song at the beginning? Even Shazam couldn't find it.

In the lowland river valleys, the sad fact is that ground nesting waders such as curlew and lapwing have trouble finding nesting spots that won't be disturbed by early spring agricultural operations, such as harvesting of grass for silage and ploughing in very early spring.

One of the most beautiful sights and sounds of the British countryside. I saw a flock of nearly 40 curlew over a lake near Ripon, North Yorkshire the other day. At one point, they flew towards me in unison over the lake. An awesome sight.

Beautiful footage!

We had many of this bird in the fields when we started doing hay in 2000.... now, they look like gone in our fields in eastern Ontario....

Dae yous ever see these 🦄, Jeffer Dupaldson is looking fur thum

Why were the older people not involved in the debate, what a waste of a debate.

There are too many false story telling already in schools, many parents have taken their children away from the schools teaching false stories about wildlife and nature.

How do we deal with Mary Colwell a collaborator with the BBC who have passed on propaganda as facts, I find it incredible that she has asked for a GCSE in Natural History, will it be reality or fiction.

How do we set out a curriculum as there are years of propaganda to be extracted from the reality, the propaganda that has been passed from Professors to students for years. The disney years have ruined our Natural History not helped by organisations such as Wild Justice and all those involved in that, the RSPB who have failed our wildlife and our habitat who's reports have been incorporated into our books of learning. this will need to be removed before any learning begins.

Amazing.....the birds happines at the winter...

What are you doing to stop habitat destruction by the RSPB who are planting trees on prime uplands for curlew and many other waders and ground nesting birds that will be displaced from these prime areas.

Deciduous versus Coniferous Stands as to Natural History of Successional Stages known to be effective, efficient, nutrient processing of slower water movements in Riparian uplands where streams, bogs, lochs, ponds, rivers, and that connectivity of flow, hydrology, instream cover or structure of channel or otherwise. Thess areas are the drivers for diverse Insect and Amphibian, Reptile, Invertebrate communities that are the formation or the natural design of nutrient functioning, absorption, below these waters surface as well.

Estuaries are the brackish, saline prone (Salinity levels assessed) freshwater/saltwater interfaces to ascertain the dynamic areas includes processes involved with the Management of Oversight Committees and Broaden Sociological change can re-educate the natural processes of these dynamic Creatures. This includes Anadromous lifestyles of Organisms such as various Salmonids to outmigrate to the Ocean, going from freshwater to salt. That lifestyle is gainful as the gain size, weight, and breeding potentials for integration back to their origins in these freshwater ecosystems.

Amphipoda or beach hoppers are dynamic intertidal Group of Species known to be eaten by many Species on the beach front which does need downed woody debris, nesting strata (natural), cover or lack of cover for some Killdeer type specialists where they just hope to blend in and not be discovered.

Insect and other pest like wildlife need to be explained in the Context of the Web of Life from Headwaters to Sea.

Plant Associations or relevees can be directed towards broader Associations of like Species ( Riparian or wetland functioning) of Native Reeds, Rushes, Cattails, Bulrushes, and other categorical Associations of plants by similarities of habitat characteristics, aspect, topography, cliffs or rock formations, and other natural Strata utilized for the Broader Guild of Avian Species being focused on. Seasonal patterns can help establish trends which are demonstrating effectiveness of Recovery Techniques.

Life began form natural Freshwater Processing, organic cycles, patterns, topographies, landscapes, Lochs, Rivers, Wetlands, Grasslands, Oak Woodlands that are crucial for larger wildlife production of Acorn mast, as by other woody Brush Species native that also create large mast(acorn) production (Quercus berber ) or other vegetative forms as lateral or prostrate positions furthering ground cover, Native perennials, long-term functioning which often was developed for Quercues Species there.

Native Flora and Fauna can be more broadly approached for Appropriate Use and Concerns as to the promotion of Native Species, Lifestyles, Natural Histories to redirect broader Sociological Inputs for restoring Native Species to recover the natural biota. From Forests to Grasslands, Use of Prescribed Fires and or other Historical Uses to redevelop these Plans and General Techniques to Re-socialize these Processes more naturally.

Their food sources need the concerns of habitat quality, freshwater determinations, defining broader consensus to keep Native Species in the cycles of Native Biota and Functioning of Ecosystems to Sustain Appropriate Management Techniques and Broader Sociological Education.

Natural forms of migration patterns, breeding colonies or habitat selection, quality of wetland, marsh, beach, staging areas to feed, broader collaborative efforts to detail the cause and effect relationships of Avian guilds or lifestyles. Their life histories and patterns of Rewilding efforts to elaborate the commonalities between and among Species to develop strategies to conserve and preserve their continuity of survival, populations, habitat suitability to appropriately manage broader sociological concerns.

Leo is wrong I'm afraid.

Reducing game releasing will put more pressure on wild birds from predator pressure, predators have a varied diet and do not concentrate on game birds.Areas where gamebirds are no longer releasing gamebirds have suffered catastrophic declines in ground nesting birds.The fox is not the only predator foxes in the countryside are fairly stable but there is an increase in other predators.The pheasant and red legged partridge are naturalised birds and not non-native this is a mistake that is been repeated and used as a weapon from anti shooting organisations.

Foxes, badgers and mink will swim for prey, I find it strange that the chap at the top thinks that foxes don't get dirty, from my own experience I have seen foxes lying in swampy wet ground with rushes for cover waiting for many hours to ambush prey.These were foxes that I came across while walking the ground in search of foxes in areas of depleted prey.

It's mostly on areas where gamebirds are reared that foxes are killed .. if they have a zero tolerance, as most keepers do, then it's not on the areas of released birds that's responsible for increases in foxes. Nature reserves and rewilding areas along with areas which are just not managed like forestry blocks are where the foxes are coming from.

My experience of Curlew is limited, but when I was roe stalking in Scotland then every summer we would find ~ and avoid, nests and they were always on land which was of little agricultural value, except for sheep grazing. The success rates were generally excellent and the one and only sustainable influence, that I could see was that winged and ground vermin were killed given every opportunity by the resident 'keeper. Considering predators ~ for reasons that I don't fully understand except for their simple and inbuilt sense of resilience, predators do not need protection. There is no question that one of the major reasons for such an expansion in predators is the vast, and some may consider the obscene numbers of game birds currently being reared and release.

I remember when I lived along side the mountains of mourne and hear the curlews call out for there partner to return through the misty darkness.... in the same way a Fishermen wife filled with sadness waited for her man to return from the sea... David is correct a haunting and unforgettable sound...

In eastern Ontario, we used to see them but by now, 2022, they are gone

Here in east Ontario, those birds are almost being absent. We used to see those kinds of birds 23 years ago, less and less sightings as years go by. Now, 2022, I saw none

Every excuse or reason in the book except FARMING PRACTICES that kill chicks. The main losses are whilst nesting!

Great words & amazing backing vocals! I’ve been filming a Curlew project in the Yorkshire Dales since March - the statistics are very disheartening but we need to find solutions otherwise the beautiful call will be lost!

Nice and beautiful video. Thanks for sharing. Big Like 263

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You used to see them every time we went birding. In fields, anywhere with brackish water and this is around Birmingham not the coasts. Same with Kestrels and so many other birds. Shame.

I disagree with this opinion. Cornwall still has nearly much the same number of Curlews as i remember 70 years ago. Scare mongering like a fresh daily BBC item. Doom and bloody gloom. On Xmas day morning at 8am, I stand on Hayle Causeway and listen to a couple hundred Curlews close by the railway platform. The only time of the year there is no traffic noise for a brief period. The sound of a large flock is magical!

Beautifully put together film. If only more people knew about the plight of our precious waders, including the beautiful curlew

Can one one please help me! I’m England Peak District area around Macclesfield. My dad found a curlew chick on the road at night on its own just now! What should I do help it by keeping it on its own or putting it with the chickens we have that have just had chicks of it’s own? Or go back up the road to the spot where it was found a let it go to try and call out to its mum and dad??? From pics I’ve seen it looks very young it’s about 5cm body size 7-15cm with legs fully extended, with specials all over. Can anyone help me to figure out what to do with it???

He plays this on the big screen before his concerts.

If you listen to the intro to Homes of Donegal by Paul Brady you'll hear a tin whistle playing and it sounds just like a Curlew. Just goes to show how evocatively musical their call is.