One of our most threatened birds, the Stone-curlew, ... Their numbers and range continued to shrink dramatically, with fewer than 150 pairs found nationwide by 1985, ...

The Stone-curlew, a shy and peculiar looking sandy-brown bird, was once a common sight in England during the spring and summer months. However, by 1985, its population had plummeted, with only 150 ...

While performing monthly breeding bird surveys, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation’s (SCCF) shorebird team ...

The stone curlew has fought back from the edge of extinction and reached a breeding target seven years ahead of schedule. Figures reveal that 351 pairs nested at its two stronghold sites in ...

A tagged bush stone-curlew stalks cautiously through Orana Park Sanctuary at night. The fenced sanctuary is 50km north of Bendigo in Victoria. A recipe for reintroduction. Shoshana Rapley is a PhD ...

Wiltshire's dry arableland is home to the stone curlew. For this weeks' Living World, Joanna Pinnock joins Nick Adams as dusk begins, as they search for this banshee of the night. Show more The ...

A FARMER has been granted permission by the High Court to challenge English Nature's declaration of a nature reserve on 30,000 acres of farmland to protect the stone curlew. Patrick Fisher, from ...

A SHORT note (Proc. Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1933–34) records the presence in a suburb of Sydney of a fine specimen of stone curlew, which has attained a great age for such a bird. He was ...

In a woodland sanctuary north-east of Canberra, a bush stone-curlew named Phil wears a tiny handmade backpack. Fitted to that backpack is a GPS, which helps researchers monitor the birds, which ...

A nationally rare bird is celebrating another successful breeding year in Norfolk and Suffolk.New figures from the Royal Society for the Protection… ...

ONE of East Anglia's rarest species of bird faces an uncertain future as farming goes through another period of change.Nearly two-thirds of the UK's stone-curlews - some 200 pairs - nest in the ...