However, for a more sustainable stone-curlew population in Eastern England, with less time-consuming protection work, we'd like to see both a big increase in grass heaths and more safe nesting ...

One of our most threatened birds, the Stone-curlew, has seen a rise in population numbers in Wessex and the Brecks thanks to the work of the RSPB in collaboration with farmers, landowners and ...

Project to save endangered bird marks 40 years Andy Hay The stone-curlew's population numbers have increased due to conservation efforts Alice Cunningham BBC News, Suffolk 26 February 2025 ...

The £1.3m EU-funded Securing the Stone-curlew Project began in 2012, aiming to increase the proportion of stone-curlews nesting on safe ground to more than 75% of the population, and establishing ...

The native birds hadn't been on the island for 50 years. But now their biggest threat is perhaps a surprising one.

Rapley said a bush stone-curlew named Plank was found to have flown 600km from Canberra to the NSW Hunter Valley in 2021, where bush stone-curlews are considered endangered.

Efforts to save the bittern and stone curlew in East Anglia are among the success stories described in a major report on UK bird life, published today. But the report makes depressing reading for bird ...

Stone-curlews were once widely found throughout England, but due to a gradual loss and deterioration of preferred nesting sites in the 19th and early 20th centuries their numbers dropped.

"The success of the stone-curlew project is proof that by working together we can make space for nature, if we really want to." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.