Stone Curlews increase with at least 206 pairs breeding.

This area has a number of important natural habitats, including for the protected Stone Curlew.

It is an important bird habitat, including for the protected Stone Curlew.

The name "Stone Curlew" was first recorded in 1667.

The news was better from southern England, where stone curlews and marsh harriers raised large numbers of young.

Stone curlews nest out in furrows of open farmland.

They are similar but slightly smaller than the Stone Curlew, which winters in Africa.

The stone curlew occurs throughout Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia.

It takes its name from the Indigenous Australian word for stone curlew, quilpeta.

Maybe the days of having skylarks and stone curlews and partridges, at the abundance that they once were, are over.

It was set back from the road in a ring of beech trees, surrounded by gorse in which stone curlews made their home.

Stone curlews and bustards face foxes and badgers on Salisbury Plain.

However, today we were seeking, not the long-gone bustard, but the nearest Breckland can offer to such a strange bird: the stone curlew.

Up to 20 pairs of Stone Curlew representing 12% of the British population breed on the Plain.

Stone Curlew breed on the edges of the forest and there is often a wintering Great Grey Shrike.

A smaller version of the Stone Curlew, only in Egypt and distinguishable in flight by having only one white wing bar, not visible at rest.

Bush Stone Curlew is not listed as threatened on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

On a wet autumnal day Joanna Pinnock goes in search of the rare stone curlew in Wiltshire.

Bush Stone Curlew are listed as "threatened" on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.

The nearby Cavenham Heath National Nature Reserve is breeding ground of stone curlews and woodlarks.

Many other species native to dry grassland are under severe pressure, including the barn owl and little owl, the stone curlew, meadow pipit and corn bunting.

Other species, including woodlarks, stone curlews and little terns, have also done well, although some, including the corncrake and golden eagle, did less well than hoped.

Most species are sedentary, but the Eurasian Stone Curlew is a summer migrant in the temperate European part of its range, wintering in Africa.

With the reduction in fox numbers, a rebound in Heath Goanna and Bush Stone Curlew numbers have been recorded.

Some of these plans have been criticised as being damaging to both archaeology and biodiversity, including the stone curlew, barn owls, bats, and the chalk grassland habitat.

It isometimes considered a subspecies of the Eurasian Stone-curlew.

Eurasian Stone-curlew, kentish plover, spur-winged lapwing and little tern also breed in the area.

Eurasian Stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus)

The Stone Curlew, Eurasian Thick-knee, or Eurasian Stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) is a northern species of the Burhinidae (stone-curlew) bird family.

Highly endangered are Great and Little Bustards, Eurasian Stone-curlew, Lesser Kestrel, Montagu's Harrier and Dupont's Lark, as these species are directly threatened by changes in the steppe ecosystem.

The Stone Curlew, Eurasian Thick-knee, or Eurasian Stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) is a northern species of the Burhinidae (stone-curlew) bird family.