| We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight. |
| When I came in April, the whimbrel, a summer migrant, had arrived to join the resident curlews, redshanks and oystercatchers. |
| So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse? |
| Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean. |
| Some of them roost so very close together, and other birds like the curlews like roosting about a metre apart. |
| An Army firing range, or a heath where ground-nesting stone curlews are breeding? |
