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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...
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Written by Roger Draycott, Director of Advisory Services & Education
Return of the Grey Partridge is available from www.gwctshop.org.uk for £20
In recent years there has been a plethora of books about nature conservation in Britain and the biodiversity crisis in which we find ourselves. Some...
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The bird which GWCT is probably most associated with is the Grey partridge yet in Wales we have very few left. After the loss of much of our mixed farming in the 1980’s when it became cheaper to buy our concentrates onto the farm rather than doing battle with combining crops on marginal land, i...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
Once upon a time there was a bird called an Ogridge. It was the invention of the now long gone Ormsby Game Services, of Louth in Lincolnshire. A hybrid between a redleg cock and a chukar hen, it was proclaimed as the partridge of the future. These two species ...
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