Lunchtime Talk – Curlew Recovery in the Cocker Valley: the first 2 years

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Contact

Organizer: Keswick Museum

Name: Keswick Museum

Phone: 017687 73263

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/104206

Address

Fitz Park
Station Road, Keswick, Cumbria,
Keswick
CA12 4NF

Price Notes

Lunchtime Talks at Keswick Museum are FREE OF CHARGE but booking is recommended as spaces will be limited.

Direction

Travelling from Penrith on A66, follow signs for town centre. Turn right after war memorial on to Station Road.

Details

Speaker: David Gardiner

The song of the curlew is one of the iconic harbingers of spring, but the numbers of breeding curlews in UK have halved over the last 25 years. There is real concern that, if no action is taken, curlews will disappear within a few years, and curlew song will be lost from the valley forever.

The Curlew Recovery Project was set up to work with local farmers and landowners to attempt to reverse this decline. The talk will explain why curlew numbers are declining so rapidly and discuss about what steps have been taken so far in the Project and what the results have been.

• 1pm in the museum’s Crosthwaite Room
• 45-60 minutes, including time for questions and discussion.

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