JOB OPPORTUNITY: Our Wetlands team are seeking a new Research Assistant.

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Closing date for applications: 13 October 2023

Please keep a look out!

It’s always a special day when we find the first #redshank nest. These birds are incredibly good at hiding their nests! Nest are found for research that feeds directly into their #conservation

And the #lapwing are off! Great to get this pic in this morning from Rupert Brewer and inside a temporary electric fence too! Can’t wait to get out there myself! #conservation

'The #watervole reintroduction & benefits for other wildlife, shows not all reintroductions require #rewilding of the landscape or designation. Wildlife can thrive on #farmland when there is active management of #habitat & #predation '...

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Thank you so much for the sighting!

CR Redshank Friday 2nd September Holes Bay NW (distant!) F. ringed as adult on nest May 2022, Lower Avon Valley, Hants. Nest hatched 17th May. Seen on breeding ground with chick May and June. Thanks to Lizzie Grayshon Waders For Real for the info
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#Shelduck migration isn't over until the last feather drops. This Tees tagged female has now moved from the Humber to the German Wadden Sea, making a small stop in Zwarte Haan to say hello to us. It could well have been one of the ducks in the photo! #DuckFollowedUs @NIOZnieuws

No colour rings this morning #FollowThoesDucks #FridayFeeling Ryan Burrell Ros Green Alastair Wilson

Had a great ferry trip over to the Hook of Holland, with wind farms visible the whole way. Now near Zwarte Haan on the Wadden Sea. Can’t wait to see 50,000+ #shelduck tomorrow!! #FollowThoseDucks ⁦Ryan Burrell⁩ ⁦Lizzie Grayshon⁩ ⁦Alastair Wilson⁩

#FollowThoseDucks ✅… thoroughly achieved. 10,000+ #shelduck just in the 1km stretch of Wadden Sea we’ve checked. Awesome sight. #phdlife Alastair Wilson⁩ ⁦Ryan Burrell⁩ ⁦Lizzie Grayshon⁩ ⁦BTO⁩ ⁦cycletoworkday⁩

Another good day, this time scouting the western Wadden Sea with ⁦Mark Collier⁩. Great to catch up with Mark & learn from local knowledge. Lots of feathers blown up the dyke too! Spot the peregrine. #phdlife ⁦Alastair Wilson⁩ ⁦Lizzie Grayshon⁩ ⁦Ryan Burrell⁩

We’re New Forest Show ready!! The The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust stand is up and running but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow for the big reveal! #science #conservation #advice

We had a great morning out looking for dragonflies and damselflies with the Avon Valley Farmer Cluster, 10 species seen on one relatively small farm! Thank you David Lock and Megan Lock for coming along to help! Turns out its also #dragonflyweek

Lapwing really are amazing parents. We managed to record a lapwing on our camera trap escorting her chicks away from the nest. Cameras were put out as part of my collaborative PhD with NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership, Game&WildConTrust, Waders For Real & Ryan Burrell .

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With redshank hatching all over the place it was a great pleasure to take out Rupert Brewer to check some nests, without him there would be a lots less wader chicks about! Rupert works tirelessly to protect breeding #lapwing #redshank #curlew #snipe and #woodcock

New blog from our placement student on our #redshank project, can’t wait to get back out there this year!

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Today was a good day!

I can not wait to get out this spring!

The CR Redshank photographed on 13/7 was ringed as a breeding adult in the Avon Valley on 14/5 this year as part of the Waders For Real program. This was the first re-sighting since it left in late June after successful breeding. Thanks to Lizzie Grayshon of Game&WildConTrust for the info