10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. The following May she was found on a nest with four eggs at RAF Honnington (four miles from my home) by Harry Ewing, an ecologist with Natural England.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
An additional benefit would be less nest predation by tidal mudflat crabs, the primary cause of Reed Parrotbill egg predation in tidal reed-bed habitat ( source ). According to one paper , the Spotted Redshank is the German among the waders, at least in Finland: its arrival and departure on the breeding grounds are the most predictable.
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