21 April is "...a day to champion the awesomeness of curlews & draw attention to the threats which face them." Having just released a kids' book about curlews, I'm holding a giveaway (announced yesterday). The winner is...

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April 21st - World Curlew Day
April 22nd - Earth Day
Dates for diaries. Everyone can do something to make this planet healthier, stronger, burgeoning with life. Days to celebrate then act.

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- let's hear it for & for the people doing their best to protect these beautiful birds & raise awareness of their plight and the imperative to care better for the living world.
This morning: watching our locals & spotting nests

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It's Natural Historian George Balam in his 1912 book the Birds of Northumberland captured the beauty of "A moor without a curlew is like a night without the moon, and he who has not eye for the one and an ear for the other is a mere body without a soul"

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Waders on Gugh Bar, Isles of Scilly, Oct 2015, painted at the time.

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