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UK currently holds approximately a quarter of the global Curlew population, with estimates for England of about 30,000 pairs. National monitoring data show that this population has been in long-term decline since the 1970s and has almost halved in the UK over the last 20 years. In lowland southern England, the population has declined to about 500 pairs, with many colonies on the verge of local extinction. Read more ...

A leisurely walk led by Mike Lewis around Compton Verney - landscape created by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in the eighteenth century, comprising parkland, two large lakes and mature mixed woodland including some very large cedars around the mansion. Read more ...

A survey where observers are each given a randomly selected 1km square and record all the species encountered and numbers of each for a minimum period of 2 hours between 9am and noon. Read more ...

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