For those who believe they've made a similar discovery, Slade encourages contacting a local museum or archaeological society.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A STONE curlew — one of Britain’s rarest and most secretive birds — caused a stir among birdwatchers at Walton Hall Marshes.

A stone curlew has been spotted at Weeting Heath (Image: David Tipling) James Symonds, a Norfolk Wildlife Trust warden, said: "It's always such a thrill to see this charismatic bird return after ...

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 ...

The RSPB is currently working with 57 landowners in East Anglia to monitor and protect about 230 stone-curlew nests per year. Farmers are also encouraged to create specially-managed plots of bare ...

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 ...

For example, a fox could potentially be ‘trained’ to develop taste aversion to curlew eggs by eating a poisoned mock curlew egg, which would not kill the fox but make it avoid eating any in the future ...

Two projects working to benefit Stone-curlew, a threatened and unique looking bird, are celebrating their 40th anniversaries, with the population now having more than doubled in size since a ...

Once found widely throughout England, from Dorset to Yorkshire, Stone-curlew numbers declined through the 19th and early 20th century with 1,000 to 2,000 pairs remaining by the 1930s. Their numbers ...

They’re probably the strangest-looking bird in England, but they’re also one of the rarest. The googly-eyed Stone-curlew was once a more common spring and summer visitor to England, seen on sandy ...

Nowadays the Bord Fáilte and the Land Commission are buying up game rights from individual farmers for gun clubs to use, with the stipulation that the clubs provide shooting for tourists. Some clubs ...

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 ...