#curlew

[fruitpigeons]

My personal faves from Decem-bird🐦‍⬛ prints

[herpsandbirds]

Thermal drone finds chicks before grass cutting

A bird protection charity has been using a thermal drone to find and protect chicks before farmers cut grass in their fields.

Eurasian Curlew or Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) 

Cumbria-based Curlew Recovery South Lakes said it had so far found six curlew nests using the drone, and a total of 32 nests overall. The birds are a red-listed endangered species in the UK and declining due to poor breeding success, the charity said. Farmer and charity volunteer George Taylor, from Crook, said: "If farmers think there may be a curlew nest or chicks in a field due to be cut, please contact us as soon as possible." Curlews lay their eggs in a nest on the ground known as a "scrape", according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. They incubate the eggs for about four weeks, then the hatched chicks spend a further four weeks with their parents until fledging.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6pp9qzg2yo

[best-bird-tournament]

Sandpiper (Scolopacidae) family - round 1, section 1

Which is the best bird?

American woodcock

Ruff

Jack snipe

Upland sandpiper

Asian dowitcher

Marbled godwit

Long-billed curlew

Bar-tailed godwit

Ruddy turnstone

Voting ended onDec 22, 2025

[photogdenography]

A Shorebird Ashore

Hudsonian Whimbrel - Point La Jolla, CA

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

Finally drew a curlew! My reference photos of them are all quite blurry, so I've been avoiding drawing it for a while, but I do love them and was in a bird mood today

[typhlonectes]

[hoot-alex]

[unteriors]

Thompson Canyon Road, Curlew, Washington.