Curlews - Threats

The greatest threats to the Curlews survival include vehicles (road kills) and domestic pets / feral animals (assumed from recordings of missing eggs and chicks over night). Ticks have been recorded in taking at least one young individual. Loss of bushland habitat is also likely to be having a major impact and the continued residential development on the Bay Island represents a major long term threat to the overall Curlew population in the Redlands region.