By Mary Colwell – AEWA MOP, 11 November 2025 On 11th November, Mary Colwell delivered a plenary speech at the AEWA Meeting of Parties in Bonn for the 30th anniversary of AEWA. The speech was a eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew. On 10 October 2025 the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct by the IUCN. It still […]
A paper published today, Monday 18th November, confirms the global extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). A close relation of the Eurasian Curlew (N. arquata), the last reliable sighting of the Slender-billed Curlew was in Morocco in February 1995, despite dedicated searches by ornithologists. The new paper is a collaboration between scientists from the