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Monitoring curlew and other ground-nesting birds is essential for effective conservation efforts but previous methods have been time consuming and delay action.
Researchers trained a new AI model called YOLOv10 by combining a pre-existing conservation AI database with nearly 39,000 im...
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Ramsons
A distinctly delicious sign of the old and of spring
The birds have started to sing differently, the days are getting longer, and at last it is starting to feel a bit warmer, but it’s just a shame the rain hasn’t stopped yet, especially for our farmers who are trying to get on the land at...
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Skylark
A well-known species in literature, poetry, art and music, the skylark hardly needs an introduction. Best known for its display flight, vertically up in the air.
It is that time of year when the Walled Garden, where Research and Advisory is stationed at GWCT HQ, falls a little quiet, as b...
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European grayling
The lady of the stream: A fish as elegant in biology as it is in folklore
The start of this month has seen the combines rolling across the fields in both the Allenford and Martin Down Farmer Clusters, which I have the pleasure of working with, which is a much earlier start to ha...
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These days farmers face many pressures including producing more food sustainably, and using more natural ways of controlling pests now key insecticides have been banned. Planting wildflower margins can help; they can support pollinators and pest natural enemies, sequest carbon, and brighten up th...
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The study mapped muirburn (prescribed burning) and wildfire across Scotland and looked for patterns in overlap.
Overall, 96 % of areas where wildfires took place were outside moorland managed by muirburn.
Between 2015 and 2020 wildfires covered 1.1 % of the moorland area.
Heather gr...
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Scotland is expanding its woodland cover as part of its efforts to combat climate change and improve biodiversity. If this expansion happens at the expense of moorland habitats it could negatively impact open moorland species, such as mountain hares.
This study focuses on the Cairngor...
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Badger numbers have increased in recent years, raising concern about their impact on ground-nesting birds.
Although badgers mainly feed on earthworms, cold and dry conditions can reduce worm availability and prompt them to take alternative prey.
This study examined how weather and hab...
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