After 40 years of dedicated conservation efforts, the Stone-curlew is making a remarkable return to the UK. The Stone-curlew, ...

Farmers are also encouraged to create specially-managed plots of bare ground within arable land for stone-curlew breeding, to keep eggs and chicks safe from agricultural activities.

working together with the RSPB and other partners to create nesting plots within arable land for Stone-curlew breeding which ensure that eggs and chicks are safe from operations. Alongside this ...

The chicken was said to have played a crucial role in the park’s endangered species breeding program for the bush stone curlew and other species by providing surrogacy to the chicks.

it also meant there were fewer insects for them and their chicks to eat. Something had to be done. So 40 years ago, two projects were started to give Stone-curlews a fighting chance of a comeback.

Eurasian stone curlew Burhinus oedicnemus with a chicken on a nest in the wild. Close up. A group of Eurasian curlews (Numenius arquata) standing in a wetland A group of Eurasian curlews (Numenius ...

Despite these pressures, farmers and landowners have been critical to the recovery of the species, working together with the RSPB and other partners to create nesting plots within arable land for ...

Deano lives in Cairns, Australia, where he says curlew birds are "quite abundant" in the city, and "like many people we have a pair that nest in our yard." Bush Stone-curlews are a nocturnal ...