Ireland is on the verge of losing its population of breeding curlew, but could our songs, stories and art help us to save it? Calling the Curlew Home is the Lyric Feature this Sunday at 6 pm Below, ...

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 became ...

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Madam, – In reference to Michael Viney’s eloquent article outlining the disappearance of the Irish curlew habitat (“Disappearing moorland leaves curlews homeless”, Weekend Review, December 11th), I ...

That the plaintive cry of the curlew is not now just a fading remembrance of those who have lived longest, or merely a crackly recording gathering dust in the sound archives, is something of a miracle ...

A farmer has won an award for helping to protect endangered curlews. Ian Bell, from Hallbankgate near Brampton, Cumbria, created wetland areas to support the wading birds whose numbers have been in ...

Bush stone-curlews are turning up in Canberra's suburbs, a sign that the bird once extinct in the ACT is making a comeback. The bush stone-curlew was lost to the ACT for more than 40 years before ...

There are birds that lift the soul with their song and others that delight the eye with their beauty. The stone curlew is not one of them. Poets have been moved to verse by the sound of a nightingale ...