Ricky Whelan

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In Your Nature · In Your Nature Ep 59 - Breeding Waders EIP · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

And I think it's it's it's better to get it out there and tell people exactly what's involved in it.

And this the the same with the uh like everything.

I mean, I think it'll be I think it'll be a surprise to some people to know that they're putting up individual predator proof fences around individual nests.

That's huge.

And like

It's not sustainable.

Like if people think we can run out and put up an electric fence around every curloo nest in the country, they're not at the races.

So w it's about adopting our landscape and our policy and the way we manage land and predators and all of those things and and we all get on the uh we get our ducks in a row and that's how we we we bring this forward.

I go further to say and in my years of Swift conservation and all those projects, I'd say we are on the western boundary of the breeding populations of those a lot of those species you're you're talking about, right?

Beyond all southern and Iceland, there's not there's nothing after that.

And I mean if there's a if if they're receding here, it means it's only it's coming to continental Europe, it's coming and it'll it we're maybe not the nucleus, but it's it's if we're on the edge of it.

And if it's if it's here

So if we can't keep them here, they're in trouble elsewhere.

waiter we mentioned on the intro and briefly breezed over it again with Owen, is the Eyster Catcher and uh off recording, um Owen uh it said um nominated Oyster Catcher for our bird of the week.

So they're fabulous.

Tell me about I

Definitely and they'll also the other identifying feature of course is their call and they will make themselves known.

They are super loud, they are noisy, they are chatty, they are alarm calling, they're very they're always chatting between each other.

So let's go over and and and listen to their call.

Totally.

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