Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 68268

Curlews: Conservation

Tabled: 15 July 2025

Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the devolved Administrations on coordinated approaches to monitoring curlew populations.

Answer

Mary Creagh

The Secretary of State has not had discussions with the Devolved Administrations on a coordinated approach to monitor curlew populations. The UK curlew population is monitored under the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), an ...

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