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The adult salmon counter on the River Frome provides us with vital information regarding the numbers of salmon that return to the river each year to spawn. However, it is also important that we count the number of young salmon – called smolts – that leave the Frome for their seaward journey to th...
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Q: What are mountain hares?A: Mountain hares are lagomorphs, a member of the rabbit family. They are sometimes known as the blue hare or white hare because of their blueish-grey coat in summer and white coat in winter. Mountain hares graze on vegetation such as heather, blaeberry and the bark of ...
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Scottish Grey Partridge Recovery Project Research Assistant
Fiona has been with GWCT Scotland’s Lowlands team for five years. She works with the two PARTRIDGE project farms in Scotland, Balgonnie and Whitburgh, carrying out grey partridge and other farmland wildlife monitoring, and providing advi...
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The draw is now closed. Congratulations to this year's winner, Mr George Ponsonby
We will be announcing details of our 2014 Gun Draw soon
Win a beautiful pair of made-to-measure E.J. Churchill Regal side-by-side guns worth £14,750 and help us raise money to prove the conservation value of shootin...
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Q: Is the global estimate of woodcock falling?A: No. The global population of 10-26 million individuals is considered stable.
Q: Are the woodcock that migrate here each autumn declining?A: No. Approximately 800,000 to 1.3 million woodcock migrate to Britain and Ireland each winter, mainly from Sc...
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Residents and migrants
Britain and Ireland support a relatively small resident breeding population of woodcock. Counts of displaying males give us the best information on trends in our breeding woodcock and the current British population estimate is 55,240 males. The European breeding population ...
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Wading birds do not literally spend their lives knee-deep in water, although most of them have an affinity for coasts or wetlands at some point in the year. Research by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has focused on an unusual and widely hunted wader, the Eurasian woodcock for over 30 ...
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‘Umbrella’ law covering snaring in Scotland (you can download our Practitioners' Guide here) is the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, as amended by the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. Subsequent legislation has focused on animal welfare, training, responsibility and record keeping and c...
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