Curlew River 

This is such a fantastic project, great job!

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!

Love it. Beautifully presented. Good luck with the continued success of the project.

Beautiful good luck. Thanks for helping this poor endangered creature. Hope it’s not in vain😢

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.

Excellent film. Excellent work. Well done for creating the film. Good luck with your amazing curlew conservation efforts.

Fabulous work and congratulations on your success so far.

Brilliant, love stuff like this 👍🏻

I live in North Kent. We used to have hundreds of Curlew in the creek. All gone now!

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?

Great work ppl ❤

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.

I was born in that river. Midwife had me swimming in there as a newborn

How wonderful 👏🏼👏🏼💗💓💕🇦🇺💗💓💕

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.

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

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.

youve magpies crow s badges foxes even hedge hogs you have to strike balance

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.?

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.