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Creating a blueprint for restoring game and other wildlife on profitable mixed farmland
Unlike at our previous grey partridge demonstration site at Royston, where increased pheasant and red-legged partridge production arose as a by–product of intensive grey partridge management, the Rotherfield D...
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Buzzard
The most common bird of prey in the UK, buzzards will be a regular sight circling high in the sky over the countryside, looking for prey. You might have heard their loud shriek as they fly over. Populations have flourished, growing 465% between 1970 and 2015. Buzzards can be found in a wi...
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Farmers do a lot for Britain’s rural environment, but there is only so much that an individual, acting in isolation, can do on his or her own farm. The Farmer Cluster concept, developed by the GWCT in association with Natural England, is a plan to help a number of farmers work more cohesively tog...
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Despite it being the wettest winter since records began in 1910 more than 500 farmers, managing nearly half-million acres of UK farmland, rose to the challenge of counting their farmland birds during the second week in February in the first Big Farmland Bird Count.
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It’s that time of year again when the GWCT is promoting its Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) to farmers and land managers, which in 2018 will take place between the 9 and 18 of February. But why should you bother?
The recent publication by Defra of the up-to-date assessment of UK bird populations s...
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As the West of Scotland Committee prepared for the annual black tie dinner at Oran Mor in Glasgow on 12 March, we had no idea it would be many of our guests’ last social outing, and our last fundraising event for the foreseeable future.
Guests were piped into Oran Mor, where they enjoyed deliciou...
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Congratulations to the winner, Mr Michael Atherton, whose ticket number 213 was drawn as the winner. Mr Atherton was flabbergasted when told of his winning ticket, saying, “I really bought the ticket as a way of supporting GWCT without any expectation of winning so the ...
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A1. Do you agree that requiring an individual licence for the sites in Group 1 and excluding the sites from list in Group 2 from the scope of the general licence will help minimise negative impacts on the relevant protected sites in an effective and proportionate manner?
We do not agree with the ...
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Gamebirds and waterfowl
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England and Wales*
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Pheasant
1 Oct - 1 Feb
1 Oct - 1 Feb
1 Oct - 31 Jan
Grey partridge
1 Sept - 1 Feb
1 Sept - 1 Feb
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Red-leggedpartridge
1 Sept - 1 Feb
1 Sept - 1 Feb
1 Sept - 31 Jan
Red grouse
12 Aug - 10 Dec
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