BERGH LMJ VAN DER (1989) Keeping up: The extension of Eurasian Curlew as meadowbird. LIMOSA 62 (1): 49-49.

Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata In the seventies a small breeding population of The Curlew discovered in a grassland area in the gluey Pigeons Giesbeek-east of Arnhem. curlews were at that time in our country mainly as a breeding bird In heathen, bogs and dunes. They nested only locally in grasslands, especially in sand and peat. The river were a new development. Since spring 1982, special attention to some populations in Wulpen the river, initially in the viscous and aileen in the south of the Gelderland Valley and later in other oak share. The breeding population in the west of the dressers (c. 2000 ha) in 1975-82 has increased from nine pairs to 28 pairs. Then the population grew until nes a maximum of 40 pairs in 1984. Since then, seems population is between 30 and 40 pairs have stabilized (Figure I). In the south of the Gelderland Valley, 198 where I is the first case was found breeding, verlaopt colonization more difficult than in the viscous, because there were only six territories established in 1988.

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