• The Curlew Trial Management Project
    A newly published paper presents an RSPB study on the response of Curlew to management interventions. Dr David Douglas, Principal Conservation Scientist, describes the results and their implications for...
  • Geltsdale
    Hi Everyone, and welcome to the very first RSPB Geltsdale hen harrier blog. My name’s Pete Howard, and I’m the Hen Harrier Warden here on the reserve. I’ll be posting most of our blogs (with maybe a stunt...
  • Farming at RSPB Geltsdale
    RSPB Geltsdale’s site manager Steve Westerberg talks about how farming on the reserve is helping to provide homes for nature. Tarnhouse Farm is part of RSPB Geltsdale and is farmed by the RSPB’s tenant...
  • Champions for curlews
    Since the 1990s the number of breeding curlews in the UK has halved. Unless we act now this much-loved bird of our uplands and estuaries could vanish from our shores. If we want to save the curlew, then...
  • Championing the curlew
    Over the past 20 years we’ve lost half of all our curlews in the UK. Unless we take decisive action now, we may lose them. In April we ran a #curlewcrisis week with a series of blogs talking about why...