Blogs

The breeding season is moving along swiftly, and the pair of breeding barn owls within one of our Owl Box Initiative project nest boxes can frequently be seen continuing to cement their bond with one another. Courtship behaviour is an important part of bonding in breeding barn owl pairs and begins over winter and throughout the nesting season.

Defra have published their long awaited General Licence for gamebird releasing on European Protected Sites. Releasing pheasants and red-legged partridges in the protected sites and within a 500m buffer around them will be licensed for an interim period of four years whilst Defra and NE undertake work to assess impacts of gamebird management on individual sites.

The bird which GWCT is probably most associated with is the Grey partridge yet in Wales we have very few left. 

The pair of barn owls occupying one of our Owl Box Initiative project boxes have chosen their nesting site and the male has been provisioning the female regularly.

If you’ve taken part in the GWCT/BTO ‘annual’ woodcock surveys before, please consider getting involved again this spring.

GWCT Head of Education Mike Swan discusses the move away from use lead shot and shares his own personal experience.

what do our bees and insects want, which are the most useful to have on your farm?

Please help us work towards better advice and support mechanisms for curlew by sharing your experience through our survey.

“My Lords, for biodiversity to be diverse and flourish in the UK, it needs habitat, species protection where appropriate, the provision of winter food for birds and animals and sensible predator control.” That was the opening remark by The Earl of Caithness last Thursday (22 April) as the Lords Grand Committee marked Earth Day by debating plans to declare a biodiversity emergency.