Blogs
3/5/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , Grey partridge , GWCT Scotland
Over the last few weeks, the Scottish Lowlands team has been busy completing the tenth year of spring grey partridge pair surveys on Balgonie farm.
4/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , GWCT Scotland
Historically, Scottish agri-environmental schemes have found it difficult to find a balance between establishing measures for biodiversity and ensuring that the system itself works for farmers.
20/2/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farmland Ecology , Farming , Grey partridge , GWCT Scotland
It’s been a busy start to the new year for the Scottish Lowlands research team. We’ve spent the last few weeks setting up gamebird feeders to carry out research into supplementary winter feeding for farmland birds.
5/2/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming , Farmland Ecology , Policy , Nature
Many parts of the English rolling landscape are criss-crossed by hedgerows, which if one stops and looks provide an interesting perspective on the history of the landscape being observed.
in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , GWCT Scotland
Throughout August and September of last year the Scottish Lowlands Research team undertook pitfall trapping on the six farms in the PepsiCo FAB project. We sampled at some beautiful locations, surrounded by the flowers of cover crops and pollinator mixes, and made sure to sample contrasting habitats at each farm.