Curlew Action

Vote for Curlew Action to share in £1,500,000 Help Curlew Action Secure a Share of £300,000

Please vote for us to share in a £70,000 grant this December at mygivingcircle.org/curlew-actio...

This grant would mean so much to us because it will help us continue our work to ensure the voice of the Curlew continues to call out.

We are happy to have, artist, Mel Shand on the ambassador team!

Welcome to Curlew Action Mel! You can have a look at Mel's artwork here:

www.melshand.com

Join us for our next webinar on Wednesday 26 November at 18:30 where we will be hearing a round up of the European Curlew breeding season.

Book your place now:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1897308393...

In our latest blog, Matt Lewis from the RSPB interviews Matt Trevelyan, the man who walked 53 miles...dressed as a Curlew.

Find out why now:
www.curlewaction.org/the-man-who-...

Did you hear the news?

We have brand new Curlew Christmas cards!

Head to our shop now to get yours to send to your family and friends!

📷 Les Bunyan

www.shop.curlewaction.org/cards/

Leigh Weston farms with her partner at Hill Top Farm in Malham.The farm is centred around nature using native breed cattle to create and manage upland habitats. Leigh is involved in the Malhamdale Curlew Project!

We are excited to announce another of our new ambassadors! Introducing Jon Mason aka, The Early Birder!

We are excited to have Jon on board and can't wait to collaborate on some amazing projects!

Launching our new Winter Curlew Photography Competition! You could win a bundle of Curlew Action merch.

- Snap a photo of a Curlew anytime between now and the beginning of February.
- Send it to admin@curlewaction.org with the subject "Winter Photo Comp"

Entries close on 10th Feb.

📷 Ed Simpson

With the weather finally getting a little bit chillier, it seems the perfect time to shout about our BRAND NEW BEANIE HATS 🤩

Limited number available to preorder for end of November delivery.

Link for our shop in bio, but be quick!

www.shop.curlewaction.org/accessories/

#CurlewAction #Curlew

Say hello to some of our new Curlew Action ambassadors, father and son team, Paul and Joe Scorey!

We can't wait to work with this brilliant duo!

This is one of the last known images of the now extinct Slender-billed Curlew taken by Chris Gomersall in 1995.

Chris will kindly be donating £10 from every print sold to Curlew Action.

Find out more and purchase yours now: www.chrisgomersall.co.uk/slender-bill...

The Natural History Consortium have just released the final programme with an incredible 60 sessions across three cities, and we are so excited to be a part of this annual conference for environmental communicators to come together to connect, collaborate and learn.

#Communicate2025

Sometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄

📷 James Wellock

Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows

New blog post.

This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.

You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.

www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...

Stay tuned to find out all about our new ambassadors!

Thank you for all of the amazing applications we had!

It was such a hard decision, every application was so strong, but we can't wait to get started working with our brand new ambassadors who are all full of incredible ideas!

The long awaited Curriculum Review is out today. There is a general aspiration to increase environment and climate change across the board but there are no specifics and no mention of the Natural History GCSE.

This is a wasted opportunity to move the agenda forwards.

📷 Emilie Fox-Teece

Good news! There is free shipping available this weekend on our Curlew clothing shop online!

Shop before midnight on Sunday to take advantage of this deal and get yourself ready for winter!

www.shop.curlewaction.org/teemill/

The 2025 Curlew Forum is happening this week on 29 October.

If you are keen to be involved in the discussions then you can join the event online from 10am!

Email charlie@curlewaction.org and we will send you the link to join!

Please share with anyone who may be interested in joining us.

We are looking for new footage & photographs of Curlews to use to help us create engaging and beautiful information to share far and wide!

If you have some bits you wouldn't mind us using with credit, please get in touch and we will add your photos to our Curlew database!

Mary gave a talk this week at Clevedon school which focus on the importance of connecting with nature.

How have you connected with nature this week?

The brilliant David Padmore is taking on the ultimate challenge and will be tackling the Winter Spine Race in January 2026 to raise funds for Curlew Action!

David will be running from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, over the Pennine Way, 268-miles unassisted.

www.curlewaction.org/david-padmor...

Who doesn't love a garden centre trip?

Well what if the garden centre came with bonus Curlews?

We were sent this lovely video from Andy Moore on a trip to the Humber Bridge Garden Centre which came with a view of these Curlews feeding!

We know where we want to hold our next team meeting!

Webinar: UK Breeding Season Round Up Join us as we hear an overview of the UK Curlew breeding season

Don't forget to sign up for the latest Curlew Action webinar which is happening this Wednesday 22 October and will focus on the UK Curlew breeding season.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-uk...

We recently had the pleasure of attending the opening of the Society of Wildlife Artists new exhibition at the Mall Galleries with animator, Will Rose.

There were so many beautiful pieces of art to marvel at, but of course we had to highlight some amazing Curlew art!

So here is a selection!

We LOVE books, and with a couple of authors on the Curlew Action team, we are so passionate about supporting independent bookshops!

It's Bookshop Day today, we would love to know about your favourite indie bookshop?

Will we learn the lesson, or shrug and continue? It’s up to us. The world has lost the sight and sound of a unique and beautiful creature. There are no more second chances. But we can stop it happening again. Please support our work.

Those who saw them used words like delicate and mysterious. It was shot, its habitat changed, we couldn’t give it the peace or even the right to live. David Gray reads Emma Price’s poem The Last Slender-billed Curlew. The music continues as the words stop, an echo of the ghost of a bird.

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

There is still time to sign up for our next webinar where you will here a round up of the UK Curlew breeding season.

Book your space via Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1673242055...

A huge thank you to everyone who has applied to become a Curlew Action ambassador. The team will shortly be going through the amazing applications and getting in touch with everyone.

We can't wait to announce our new ambassadors!