Headstarting Chicks Helps Ireland's Curlew Numbers

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Jul 27, 202622:44Science & Medicine

Ireland's curlew population has plummeted, but an ambitious conservation project is offering new hope. Twenty 'headstarted' chicks, hatched from eggs flown in from Yorkshire, were reared at Dublin Zoo before being releas...

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