Natural England is leading an innovative partnership project to boost populations of Eurasian curlew in the East of England. The project takes eggs laid by curlew on airfields where the birds pose a threat to air safety, then rears and releases them in the right kinds of habitats for them to thrive.
Funded by Defra and Natural England, the project builds on a local and national partnership already in place between Natural England, Defra, Pensthorpe Conservation Trust, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, British Trust for Ornithology, the Sandringham Estate, the Ken Hill Estate, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, the RAF, Army Flying Service and USAF, bird control contractors such as NBC Environment and the Zoological Society of London.
