Tragic. Preventable. Final. The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch. We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind. Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews David Gray

@DavidGray "Natural History Museum, London have confirmed the likely extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew" Likely..... With a massive territorial range that covers some very unsafe and politically challenging working environments....

@DavidGray It is the IUCN who declare extinctions, which happened on Oct 10th.

@DavidGray Again you arent listening. It has been declared "Likely" extinct. Due to lack of evidence.

"Bonn, 10 October 2025 – Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia."

@DavidGray You must understand, when they declare extinction. There are several reasons, This one is because they cannot find a population and have deemed it "likely" extinct. as they have not found evidence of a population. Do some digging and you find out they haven't looked hard..

@DavidGray "The last well-documented nest was found in 1924, near Tara in Omsk Oblast, Siberia (57°N 74°E).[8] Its nesting grounds since then remain unknown, despite several intensive searches (not surprising, with more than 100,000 square kilometres to search)" You wanna search that?

@DavidGray 😢 😭 😿 😢 cry for you lovely birds .RIP . Hope after a few decades will hear a few birds found in a lonely island somewhere in the world .

@DavidGray This breaks my heart... 💔😢

@DavidGray The planet thrives sans humans.

@DavidGray Aww. Locally they built over the Deer migration routes and we have seen deer cowering next to dual carriageways. Humans seem only to care about money, power and status.

@DavidGray The Slender-billed Curlew's extinction is a wake-up call. We must protect every remaining species before it's too late. #BiodiversityCrisis

@horton_official @DavidGray Heartbreaking, heart wrenching and shamefully preventable. Who do we think we are.

@DavidGray I Ireland we have the common Curlew, (I think, )their numbers are very low also but in the past few years a program with farmers has doubled the number of breading pairs.

@DavidGray Appalling. We are not learning or not enough people care.

@benpuppypaws @DavidGray We need to continue to support our British upland farmers to maintain the vital last habitat stronghold of our Curlews or they may well go this way too.

@DavidGray A total disgrace, it seems there will be many more to follow as we cover the country side with concrete

@DavidGray So so sad 😞 heartbreaking

@DavidGray This is tragic, such a an elegant beautiful bird. Saw my first ever (Eurasian) curlew only this August over in the Newport Wetlands. We walk blindly on ….

@DavidGray I, like many others, looked for this species during the Winter in Morocco. I did not engage guides or other birders as i considered them a disturbance much as they are now with Marsh Owls. Unknowingly i was at least 15 years too late. There is hope and hope never dies.....

@DavidGray Oh, this is sad 🥺 I am sorry.

@DavidGray Heartbreaking and should be a wake up call for us all.

what's the main cause for the extinction of this beautiful species of bird? Tragic. Preventable. Final. The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch. We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind. Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews @DavidGray

@DavidGray How deeply sad. How hauntingly grievous.

@DavidGray So sad 😞

@DavidGray We won`t be happy until we`ve destroyed everything - All life , all plants , Mother Earth !

Heartbreaking indeed. 💔 The IUCN’s 2025 update confirming the Slender-billed Curlew’s extinction is a stark reminder that conservation delay equals loss. Once spread across Eurasian wetlands, it’s now gone erased by habitat destruction and neglect. We can’t afford another silence like this.

@PaulineMcLynn1 @DavidGray I don’t get the lack of respect for life on this planet. It’s not like we have proof there’s something better out there. Why let our magic die? Stop killing for fun, that’d be a good start. The woodcock is red listed😞#ThereIsNoPlanetB

@DavidGray Awful 🤬

@DavidGray I am ashamed of humanity

@DavidGray I’m sure u see this Bird in Donegal usually by the sea. Well it looks exactly the same . I’ll definitely photograph it next time u see it.

@kemper_sabrina @DavidGray This bird was in Portmarnock 24 months ago in our family garden by the coast....

@kemper_sabrina @DavidGray That would have been a Eurasian Curlew.

@DavidGray Have felt this deeply. Wrote a post on this erosion of bodiversity, mostly ignored as a sideshow. Tragic.

@Neety55 @DavidGray Well that’s sad to learn

@DavidGray This is so, so sad 🥹

@DavidGray 💔

@CommunityPlann1 @DavidGray 😞

@DavidGray Tragic could have been prevented

@DavidGray Shocking

@gorman_mary @DavidGray What a darn shame. Makes me sick.