Matt’s homemade costume was over 3 yards long. Alex Large / SWNS. World Curlew day was created in 2017 by Mary Colwell to raise awareness of the declining numbers of curlews and the troubles ...

He says curlew have suffered because of the industrialisation of farming practices. "Farming has become horribly efficient. You've got one man and a very big machine as opposed to 10 men with very ...