Corinne Duggins has had many roles at #GWCT , spanning over an incredible 40 years!

As staff prepare to wish Corinne all the best in her retirement, we have the pleasure in sharing Corinne's last blog taking us through her time at the Trust.

➡️ bit.ly/4ayH3MX

News just in! We had 1st #Curlew nest yesterday! The prize for earliest nest in #Curlew LIFE project areas goes to RSPB Lower Lough Erne Islands nature reserve, on 1 of the islands. Congrats to the early birds ❤️ 📷 . Matches last year's record of 1st eggs 8 April at Glenwherry

Rainfall by month (Oct-Mar) over the past 8 years.

2023-4 easily the wettest, currently standing around 630mm - our annual average total! 🌧️ 💦 ☔️

Interested in a career in mammalogy?

Join Mammal Society's hybrid workshop - online or in Cambridge.

Our speakers will share their personal journeys, reflections, and insights into the world of mammal research and conservation.

Tickets: tinyurl.com/bdcpnpee

Excited to host Dr Chris Heward - Head of Wetland Research The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for the School of Life Sciences, University of Essex seminar today - all welcome to join via zoom (details follow) - 'How Bird Ringing and Tracking can Inform Species Conservation: Case Studies from Woodcock and other Waders' #ecology

Great team meeting and walk in Hampshire with Francis Buner of The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust leading us around some Grey Partridge habitat in the spring sunshine☀️ #FWAGSE #FWAGSouthEast #teamwork #professionaldevelopment #farming #wildlife #Habitat #greypartridge

📢New #OA paper about #salmon river #restoration , #floodplains & #portfolios led by Dr Cordoleani📢
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KEY MESSAGES:
Restoration can be INCREDIBLY powerful. Butte Creek spring run salmon numbers increased ~2000% post restoration! (1/3)

We have a number of #job opportunities available within our research teams:

- Data Support Officer
- Senior Agroecologist/Soil Ecologist (Scotland)

Follow the link to find our more details about the positions ➡️ gwct.org.uk/about/careers/

Our students have been working hard, sampling #insects across various areas of a farmed landscape, including stubble fields, fallow fields, hedges and areas of wildflower mixes.

Read more about their sampling technique & results in a recent blog ➡️ bit.ly/3IHavnx pic.twitter.com/BQrdkma94g

'Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes: A synthesis using the Theory of Planned Behaviour'

ICYMI: New paper led by Adelaide Sander with Jaboury Ghazoul & Sergei Schaub, Journal of Rural Studies

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Head of Wetland Research, Dr Chris Heward, reports on a fantastic response to the 2023 Breeding #Woodcock Survey ➡️ bit.ly/49WpgiB

Despite the conclusions not being straightforward, the results will help inform future woodcock #conservation & #policy .

📸 Steve Round

ICYMI 📺| Patrick Barker from The Barker Boys was on BBC Countryfile for the ten year anniversary of the The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's Big Farmland Bird Count, explaining how the #BFBC encourages farmers to record bird species on their farm 👨‍🌾🐦

Watch from 36:44 👉 ow.ly/hu7650QVGi4

Delighted that Chris Heward from The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust will be delivering an update on the 2023 breeding woodcock survey in Enniskillen on March 27th.

All welcome - come along & learn more about this fascinating species. #woodcock

🚨 New paper alert 🚨

Let’s talk about heathland management. 77% of studies focus on upland areas, but in new research GWCT scientists look at the impacts of prescribed burns on lowland heathland and ask, is burning better for these habitats? (1/5)

Best of luck in all that comes Dave - Dave was my first employer in ecology after I left University - fondest memory is him dropping to pick without stopping and scrumping on field mushrooms for breakfast as we did morning wader transects that were otherwise far too early 🤣🍄

After 35 years of dedicated service with the Trust, Dr Dave Baines left the #GWCT last week.

Colleagues pay tribute to one of our most productive senior scientists, having authored over 110 scientific papers during his career - bit.ly/3TdUlH9

He will be sorely missed.

A collaboration between The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Natural England and Beaulieu Estate is aiming to protect wading birds through its new Gravelly Shores project.

bit.ly/3wS1cyq

'It's a numbers game, the quicker we can do the science and come up with a policy to inform government and Natural England, Defra UK on what techniques are likely to be effective, what scale they need to be deployed at, then we're more likely to save curlews before those…

Rainy days are for lab work! ☔️ Here's a peak at one of our pitfall samples taken from an agroforestry strip last summer. What can you spot? 👀

Were you aware of the importance the UK plays in shaping Curlew Conservation? 🤔 #ActionforCurlew

gwct.org.uk/wildlife/appea…

#LastCurlew #followthescience #workingforwildlife #conservationatwork