Blogs

Watch this short video produced by The Fieldsports Channel on our Waders for Real project, which aims to reverse the decline of breeding waders in the Avon Valley, with the help of farmers, keepers and land managers.

Spring 2020 has been a very different year for members of the GWCT Wetlands team, as it has been for all of us. 

The end of September saw the Waders for Real team head to Morecambe Bay in Lancashire to attend the International Wader Study Group Conference; a four-day event involving wader scientists from all around the world

With temperatures warming and the days getting longer, breeding Lapwing will shortly be back in the Avon Valley. We have been a busy team this winter, establishing 2 new breeding wader hotspot sites and monitoring wintering waterfowl and waders. So, before we get into the 2019 season, we thought it would make sense to reflect on 2018.

The Waders for Real project is implementing various conservation strategies, aimed at reversing the long-term decline of breeding wading birds in the Avon Valley.

The study of bird movement has long fascinated people, if we look back through history ideas on where seasonal migrants go in the wintertime crops up again and again.