• Know your birds for the Big Farmland Bird Count
    With just three months until the 4th Big Farmland Bird Count, the GWCT is offering an exciting opportunity for those farmers who are thinking of taking part to book on to a farmland bird identification...
  • Farming for waders
    Posted on behalf of Dr Rebecca Laidlaw, Conservation Scientist Last year Dr Jen Smart wrote a guest blog for Martin Harper called “Where have all the waders gone and how are we going to get them back...
  • Working with farmers to give breeding waders a home in Bowland
    For the past ten years the RSPB’s Gavin Thomas has been working on the Bowland Wader project, an initiative aimed at encouraging farmers in Bowland, North Lancashire, to help breeding waders thrive on...
  • Axholme and Idle farmland birds 2014 - results are in!
    The Axholme and Idle valley farmland bird project is one of a suite of local initiatives supporting groups of farmers working for wildlife across different landscapes. Up here in the low, open flatlands...
  • Big Farmland Bird Count
    Just a reminder that the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust launch their first annual bird count today! All farmers and gamekeepers are invited to join in between now and 7 February - and all you need...