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Curlew Moon

Biography / Memoir Nature Writing
By: Mary Colwell(Author), Jessica Holm(Illustrator)
328 pages, b/w illustrations
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Curlews are the UK's largest wading bird, about the size of a herring gull on long legs. They are particularly known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have expressed in poetry, art and music. Over the last thirty years curlew numbers have fallen by an alarming 20 per cent across the European continent, and by a staggering 99 per cent in their most western reaches in the Irish Republic. So alarming are the figures that curlews were made a species of highest conservation concern in the UK in December 2015, and put onto the red list of threatened species by the IUCN.

This transition of curlews to high conservation status made it clear they were slipping away for problems that could be addressed with the public and political will to solve them. It was then that the idea of a 500-mile journey by foot began to crystallise in Mary Colwell's mind and became a concrete plan. Colwell decided to take time out to walk from the West coast of Ireland through Wales to the East coast of England to raise awareness about its plight, and to raise funds to protect this beautiful bird and its habitat.

Colwell started walking in the early spring when birds were first arriving on their breeding grounds in the west of Ireland, walking through to Wales when they incubated their eggs. She then travelled through England to coincide with the time when the chicks were hatching. Six weeks after setting out she arrived in East Anglia as the fledglings were beginning to try out their wings. By finishing on the east coast, she marked the place where many curlews would come to spend the winter.

Colwell chronicles her impressive journey in this beautifully illustrated book, weaving a wonderfully told story of the experiences on her walk, interspersed with the natural history of this most impressive of birds that has fascinated us for millennia.

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Mary Colwell makes programmes for the BBC and the independent sector, mainly on nature and the environment. She recently featured in BBC Wildlife's UK 50 Top Conservation Heroes awards.

Biography / Memoir Nature Writing
By: Mary Colwell(Author), Jessica Holm(Illustrator)
328 pages, b/w illustrations
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"Focuses a razor light on the plight of one our most iconic birds. Inspirational!"
– Tim Birkhead

"[...] Mary’s walk is no small feat, and her account is beautifully written, soundly researched and inspiring in terms of what each of us can contribute to saving Curlews. There is gritty realism too. Mary does not shy away from controversy and engages so positively with the intractable issues in the English uplands, where Curlews could so easily be the casualty of grouse versus predators. [...]"
– Andy Clements, BTO book reviews

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