FORUM

Four members of the Cley Bird Club in North Norfolk, UK are offering a total of $1,000 for any photograph of a live Slender-billed Curlew taken in the Middle East & Turkey. Because of the identification challenges posed by the species any photograph will have to be verified by the SBC Indentification Verificion Panel, which comprises wader experts with past experience of the species. As you will know a full survey and search for this species is planned for next winter.



It is the wish that $500 will go to the photographer and $500 to a conservation cause in the country where the photograph was taken.



Already two photographs have been submitted - taken in Iraq last winter - but sadly they were not proven to be Slender-billed Curlew, but great that Iraqi birders are trying to find the bird. The last claim of SBC in the wild, anywhere in the world, was in Hungary in 2001. Can anyone beat that?



For more information on SBC please visit www.slenderbilledcurlew.net



Best wishes,



Jose Tavares

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Ankara

That s a task for Soner Bekir. If it can be found in Tukey, he ll find it :)