Chapter 1 – WHAT IS A CURLEW?
1. Alan McClure, ‘Schrödinger’s Curlew’ (2011)
2. Norman MacCaig, ‘Curlew’ (1987) © The Estate of Norman MacCaig. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear
3. Alan McClure, ‘Schrödinger’s Curlew’ (2011)
4. C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955)
5. Ted Hughes, ‘Curlews Lift’
6. Lord Edward Grey, ‘The Charm of Birds’ (1927)
Chapter 2 – BEGINNING AT THE END
1. Scottish Birds, vol 31, ‘Satellite Tracking of a Curlew migrating between Scotland and Finland’, R.H. Dennis, B. Etheridge, S. Foster, J. Heaton & R.L. Swann (2011)
2. ‘The Great Rush of Birds on the Night of 29–30 March’, as observed in Ireland by R.M. Barrington, M.A. Published in the Irish Naturalist, Vol. XX, June 1911
Chapter 3 – ARRIVING IN IRELAND
1. Jeremy Hooker, The Cut of the Light: Collected Poems 1965–2005 (2006)
2. ‘The Seafarer’, Anglo-Saxon poem
3. Parish of Glenwherry, Co. Antrim Statistical Account (1836)
4. James McKowen, The Harp of Erin (1869)
5. Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, Waders: Their Breeding, Haunts and Watchers (2010)
6. Ted Hughes, The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
7. Austin Clarke, The Singing Men at Cashel (1936)
8. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8)
Chapter 4 – THE LAND OF LAKES
1. John Clare (1793–1864), ‘Landrail’
2. RSPB Lough Beg Management Plan (2010)
3. T.P. Flanagan, ‘On Arney Bridge’ (1945) © The Estate of T.P. Flanagan
4. Moira O’Neill, ‘The Fairy Lough’ (1901)
Chapter 5 – ENTERING EIRE
1. John Wesley (1703–1791), The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., edited by Curnock, Nehemiah; Telford, John (1851–1936)
2. W.B. Yeats, Four Years: 1887–1891 (1921)
Chapter 6 – INTO THE BOGS
1. John Moriarty, What the Curlew Said (The Lilliput Press, 2007)
2. A report on bog development, London News, 28 September 1850
3. Bord na Móna website: https://www.bordnamonaliving history.ie/, A history of peat extraction in Ireland
4. Founding Father Dr. C.S. ‘Todd’ Andrews (1901–1985), Scéal na Móna, Vol. 13, no. 41, April 2002, pp18–21
5. W.B. Yeats, ‘The Countess Cathleen’ (1892)
6. James Jennings, Ornithologia; Or, The Birds: A Poem in Two Parts (1828)
Chapter 7 – INTO WALES
1. Roger Lovegrove, Graham Williams, Iolo Williams, Birds in Wales (1994)
2. Robert Burns, ‘Letter to Mrs Anna Dunlop’ (1789)
3. Alice Gillington, ‘The Seven Whistlers’, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology (1837–1895)
4. Pearce-Higgins, J.W., Stephen, L., Langston, R.W., Bainbridge, I.P. and Bullman, R., ‘The distribution of breeding birds around upland wind farms’, Journal of Applied Ecology, 46: 1323–1331 (2009)
5. National Assembly for Wales Renewable Energy (August 2013)
Chapter 8 – SOUTHERN ENGLAND CURLEWS
1. Richard Murchison, ‘On the Silurian System founded on the geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford; with descriptions of coal fields and overlying formations’ (1839)
2. Walter White, All Around the Wrekin (1860)
3. Magdalene Weale, Through the Highlands of Shropshire on Horseback (1935)
4. H.W. Timperley, Shropshire Hills (1947)
Chapter 9 – CURLEW MOORS
1. R.S. Thomas, ‘The Minister’ (1953)
2. Dallimer M., Tinch D., Acs S., Hanley N., Southall H.R., Gaston K.J. & Armsworth P.R., ‘100 years of change: examining agricultural trends, habitat change and stakeholder perceptions through the 20th century’, Journal of Applied Ecology, 46 (2), pages 334–343 (2009)
Chapter 10 – CURLEWS AND CONTROVERSY
1. John Muir, My First Summer in Sierra (1869)
2. David Hey, A History of the Peak District Moors (2014)
3. Whitfield, D.P. & Fielding, A.H., ‘Analyses of the fates of satellite tracked golden eagles in Scotland’, Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 982 (2017)
4. https://news.gov.scot/news/golden-eagle-deaths
6. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/jncc441.pdf
7. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/491818/hen-harrier-action-plan-england-2016.pdf
8. https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/martinharper/archive/2017/09/04/the-conservationist-39-s-dilemma-an-update-on-the-science-policy-and-practice-of-the-impact-of-predators-on-wild-birds-4.aspx1
9. G. Matt Davies, Nicholas Kettridge, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Alan Gray, Davide Ascoli, Paulo M. Fernandes, Rob Marrs, Katherine A. Allen, Stefan H. Doerr, Gareth D. Clay, Julia McMorrow, Vigdis Vandvik, ‘The role of fire in UK peatland and moorland management: the need for informed debate’ (2016)
10. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Agriculture_-_greenhouse_gas_emission_statistics
Chapter 11 – SEEING THE LAST CURLEW
1. https://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/naturalthinking_tcm9-161856.pdf
2. W.S. Graham, Two Love Poems in New Collected Poems (2015)
3. David Rothenberg, Tina C. Roeske, Henning U. Voss, Marc Naguib, Ofer Tchernichovski, ‘Investigation of musicality in birdsong’, Hearing Research, Vol. 308 (2013)
4. John Coulter, ‘A Rhyme of Two Worlds’ (1946), in Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, edited by David Pierce (2000)
5. John Fowles, Wormholes (2010)
6. Langston Hughes, ‘Dreams’, from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes.
Chapter 12 – REFLECTIONS
1. Dallimer M., Tinch D., Acs S., Hanley N., Southall H.R., Gaston K.J. & Armsworth P.R., ‘100 years of change: examining agricultural trends, habitat change and stakeholder perceptions through the 20th century’, Journal of Applied Ecology, 46 (2), pages 334–343 (2009)