Curlews return to Bramble Hollow after fifty years
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Comebacks · about 1 min · Ada Okonkwo-Reyes · The Riverbend Wire
Eighty-one nesting pairs, on a stretch of marsh a single warden has walked every spring since 2007.
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The curlews came back to the Hollow in numbers nobody had recorded since 1974.
“We counted eighty-one nesting pairs,” said the warden, who has walked the same transect every spring for nineteen years.
The recovery follows a decade of fencing, water-table work and a quiet agreement among four neighbouring farms to leave the wet corners alone.
Why this matters
Curlew numbers have fallen across the region for two generations. This is what a reversal looks like when it is measured rather than hoped for.
If you want to carry one thing with you
- Find your nearest wetland trust and ask what they count https://example.org/volunteer (opens in a new tab)
- Walk one transect this spring