Europe is losing 5000 Curlews every year. What can we all do to stop – or even slow down the decline?
If a patient presents with a problem, it’s the job of the health professional to work out the root cause, to come up with a treatment plan and to check that it works. That’s the process that is used for bird conservation – notice, diagnose, treat and monitor. Sometimes, however, the patient is in such a serious condition that you cannot wait for a full set of test results, you just have to try something. That’s the situation with Curlew in the United Kingdom; the losses are so rapid that people are already taking local action to try to increase chick numbers (see some links at the bottom).
This blog focuses on a new paper, by Samantha Franks and colleagues from the BTO and RSPB, that…
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