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Saving the grey partridge: A new conservation project in Germany

By Jasmine Canham, Wildlife Recovery placement student What do Pierce Brosnan and the grey partridge have in common? More than you would think! The beloved British spy 007, played by Brosnan from 1995-2002, was in fact named after a real man called James Bond – a prolific American ornithologist o...

Grey partridge stepfather steps up

A breakfast encounter with a grey partridge pair

Promoting the PARTRIDGE Project

GWCT Scotland is helping to run the PARTRIDGE project, part funded by the EU’s North Sea Region Interreg programme. This has ten demonstration farms across Scotland, England, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, and in Scotland it is organised by Fiona Torrance. Recently, Fiona managed to secure...

The legacy of the PARTRIDGE placement students

Over the course of the PARTRIDGE project, the GWCT has hosted up to three new students each year – always sad to see them leave but equally excited for the next students to arrive. Over the years it has been a pleasure to employ some extremely talented undergraduates from across the UK. Here, sev...

Partridge Pair Surveys: a vital tool for grey partridge conservation

By Rhiannon Wooldridge, GWCT Scottland Lowlands placement student The partridge pair surveys are an essential tool for monitoring the population dynamics of the grey partridge, Perdix perdix, a ground-nesting bird found in the UK and across Europe, that we use as an indicator species for farmland...

Don't forget to do your autumn counts for the Partridge Count Scheme

This week, several GWCT research staff are out in the Sussex countryside undertaking autumn partridge counts. Autumn counts provide a great insight into the breeding success of partridge pairs and, in turn, the health of farmland biodiversity. People on farms and estates across the country are ta...

Balgonie shortlisted for RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards

The RSPB Scotland has nominated the GWCT’s Balgonie Biodiversity Project for the 2023 Nature of Scotland Awards. It is one of four projects shortlisted in the Food and Farming category for its excellent work at the arable demonstration farm near Glenrothes in eastern Scotland. The 500ha site prod...

Wild Partridge ‘keeper retires after 35 years with GWCT

Since the 1980s the GWCT has developed and run four highly successful and influential lowland wild game recovery demonstration projects. Integral to all these projects was the gamekeeping programme which was run by Malcolm Brockless. The first was on Salisbury Plain in the 1980s where we demonstr...

Green Thumbs At GWCT HQ: Growing Oakbank’s Advanced PARTRIDGE Wildflower Mix

Written by Beth Brown, PARTRIDGE placement student The Advanced PARTRIDGE Wildflower Mix is a wild bird seed mix (AB9), and undoubtedly one of the best habitat options to support farmland wildlife. It has been developed by scientists at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) throughout t...