Ricky Whelan
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 25 Aug
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Hello everyone, welcome to In Your Nature Podcast with me, Ricky Whelan of Offley County Council.
I'm delighted.
It's um it's it's it's it's fantastic and we we've we've got the band back together.
No, so yeah, though, it's I'm thrilled and we've really good episodes to s to to kick off with this season and we're talking about the Breed and Wader EIP with the Breed and Wader project manager Owen Murphy, so uh really look forward to uh getting into that with him.
Yeah, so I mean I spoke to I spoke to Owen about breeding waders, but I suppose before we get into breeding waders, let's talk a little bit maybe about waders and what that family of birds is and why they're called waders and why Owen and the Breeding Waders EIP project are specific uh particularly, should I say, worried or interested or focused in breeding waders?
They're really incredible and the the the sounds they make and the landscape and I mean people that this sort of it brings us nicely into the breeding waders and the ones that are having problems in in this country.
And I suppose the headline one, the flagship species we all talk about is the curloo.
And the curlew are probably the most on the brink and followed
followed kind of very tightly behind by Lapwing uh and and others.
So the the breed and watery IP is really focusing on a suite of bird species that are really on the brink for for many reasons now.
What has brought them to the edge?
So curloo, we're talking chicken sized bird on stilts with a long neck and a long bill.
So just for people for scale, big brown bird, like a whopper, a fairly significant animal.
Then we're to when we're talking lap wing, we're talking maybe like jackdaw size on stilts again, nice um you know uh uh uh crest on the head, really uh attractive bird.
Often see them in flocks, they'll breed in colonies.
But again, all ground nesting, tink ground nesting
Nesting on the ground, their little little cup with eggs in it, very, very vulnerable in big open spaces.
Be it a fox coming along, be it a grey crow, be it a tractor with a plough behind it, they're in you know, just in the wrong place to be nesting when it comes to sort of activity anywhere in in those sort of habitats.
Red shank again, very charismatic animal.
Big long red legs, orange red bill, gorgeous.
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