Once found widely throughout England, stone-curlew numbers declined through the 19th and early 20th century as their heathland nesting habitats were lost - and by 1985 there were fewer than 100 ...
City of Ammon Mayor Sean Coletti spoke on the current status of city projects, streets and the roles of citizens Friday during a state of the city address. “I’m here today to share with you ...
The RSPB is celebrating 40 years of Eurasian Stone-curlew conservation, with numbers of the wader having doubled in Britain during that timeframe. The birds have benefitted from the dedicated efforts ...
As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...
Rosie Galea chuckles as she describes the call of the bush stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius). “I’ve heard that people often think it’s a woman screaming,” she says. “The sound is certainly unique and ...
"The success of the stone-curlew project is proof that by working together we can make space for nature, if we really want to." ...
Once found widely throughout England, from Dorset to Yorkshire, Stone-curlew numbers declined through the 19th and early 20th century with 1,000 to 2,000 pairs remaining by the 1930s.Their numbers and ...
Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.
They’re probably the strangest-looking bird in England, but they’re also one of the rarest. The googly-eyed Stone-curlew was once a more common spring and summer visitor to England, seen on sandy ...
He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...
But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...