A Shropshire conservation project is celebrating following the birth of a batch of chicks of a threatened bird species.
Project officer James Warington andaviculturist Lisa Bath with curlew chicks
In one hidden corner of the Shropshire Hills a conservation project called Curlew Country is doing its bit to protect the species by breeding them.
Curlew Country started work on the ground in 2015 in a core area of 200km and during its first two active years, nest monitoring revealed that no chicks survived to fully fledge from over 30 nests studied. Curlew Country now works with more than 80 farmers and land managers on creating safe areas for the bird. There are now 40 pairs of breeding lowland curlew in the area and a nationally significant lowland population.
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