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The Future of Wiltshire's Waders

So you may have noted that breeding waders in Wiltshire are not in a great state. Massive population declines have led to local...

I think its safe to say that the UK as a country has one of the best networks of biological recording and species based surveys anywhere...

Spring is in the air, the days are getting warmer (sort of), the evenings are getting lighter and the natural world is thinking about...

As wader species on farmland continue to decline, efforts to protect them have to step up a gear. One of the best tool that...

So, you may have gathered from this website that wading birds in Wiltshire are not doing brilliantly. The Curlew in particular is being...

In Wiltshire we are lucky enough to have breeding Stone-Curlew, the Wessex population has been overseen by an RSPB project for many...

Successful conservation relies on data, data needs people to collect it, we are all people. Therefore we can all make a really valuable...

This week I attended a talk run by the Floodplain Meadows Partnership. The evening consisted of several mini-talks focusing on various...

So why should we care about wading birds? What have they ever done for us? They are amazing birds and give us some iconic spectacles. But...

In the U.K we live in a sort of paradox. Many of the species which are rare in our country are globally common. For example the Golden...