Twice as many curlew chicks fledged on the site at Glenwherry, near Larne, last year than in the previous year
Conservationists in Co Antrim are celebrating a bumper year for one of Ireland's most threatened species of birds.
The work, carried out on behalf of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, found an alarming decline in numbers of the once common species. Curlew are near threatened on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List and red-listed on the Irish Birds of Conservation Concern.
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