Curlew are in trouble in lowland England, with too few young curlew surviving to fledge.
We are pitching in all we can to help them by raising vulnerable eggs to fledging at Elmley. To do this we need specialist equipment and support so by donating you will contribute directly to helping increase the lowland population of curlew in the UK. As a country we have 40% of the global population so every pair counts.
On average this type of project known as 'head-starting', the close support of egg to chicks, increases the fledging success from 0.2 chicks per brood to 3.2 chicks per brood - that's enormous improvement and will help breeding curlew survive in lowland England.
We hope any birds fledging at Elmley will be site faithful and so benefit from a vast habitat of mud flats, saltmarsh and wet grassland marshes which we have at Elmley and Swale NNR. They have a much better chance of breeding successfully here too in future years.
Any donation large or small would be greatly appreciated.