This session of the European Curlew Headstarting Workshop was led by Tanya Grigg (Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust) and delved into the intricacies of egg collection, including the challenges of securing landowner permissions and ensuring donor populations remain unaffected. Discussion included innovative technologies used in incubation and hatching, exploring definitions of success, and exchange of practical solutions for common hatching issues.
In this blog, you can find the recording of Tanya’s presentation as well as a summary of the Q&A and discussion that followed during the live conference in 2025.
Discussion with Tanya Grigg
Tany Grigg is the Lead Aviculturist on the Dartmoor Curlew Recovery project and has worked on Curlew projects since 2019 at WWT Slimbridge and on Dartmoor. Before this, Tanya was been involved with projects such as Black-tailed Godwits and Eurasian Cranes in England and Madagascar Pochard in Madagascar.
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European Curlew Headstarting Online Workshop
This blog was produced as an output of the European Curlew Headstarting Online Workshop, a virtual event delivered by Curlew Action and the Biological Recording Company. Check out the other presentations and outputs in the other blogs resulting from this event.
- An Overview of Headstarting Curlews
- Curlew Headstarting Projects: Europe
- Curlew Headstarting Projects: England
- Curlew Headstarting: Eggs, Incubation and Hatching
- Curlew Headstarting: Rearing Chicks
- Curlew Headstarting: Health & Disease Coming soon…
- Curlew Headstarting: Releasing Birds Coming soon…
- Curlew Headstarting: Post-release Monitoring Coming soon…
For more information about this event, the speakers and the presentations see the event delegate pack below.
Biological Recording 