SURVEY WORK

  • SURVEY WORK

    Bird Track

    I started entering records to Bird Track in spring 2018 and I currently count records for 6 sites as follows: Ferneydale, Sherbrooke, Ramsley, Norbriggs Flash, Hope Valley, Renishaw and Lightwood.  Complete lists from birders from around the UK are entered into the database and helps the BTO to compile information, for example about arrival dates of migrants each year.

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    WeBS

    I started counting for a WeBS (Wetland Bird Survey) site at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton in January this year.  The survey’s aim is to estimate a population of non-breeding waterbirds in the UK mainly during the winter. Unfortunately the site doesn’t have a wide range of species with just the common species being regular, but Renishaw Park where we ring with Geoff is also a vacant survey site so we may take that on in the future.

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    Garden Wildlife Health

    This is a BTO survey which monitors the health of wildlife in gardens.  For this scheme I record any disease incidents for birds, mammals and reptiles, for example bumble foot in finches and avian pox in Dunnocks.  I also record the number of ponds and the size of the garden being surveyed. For more info visit the BTO website.

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