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In a bid to save Eurasian Curlew from becoming extirpated in Ireland, the Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is recruiting 30 staff to join its Curlew Conservation Programme for this spring and summer.
Eurasian Curlew is one of Ireland s most endangered birds, having suffered an appalling 96% slump in its breeding population since 1990. Fewer than 150 pairs are thought to remain; in the late 1980s, this was as high as 5,500. At this rate of decline, NPWS predicts that the species could be lost as a breeder in Ireland within a decade.