• National Hen Harrier Survey 2016
    Guest blog by Simon Wotton, RSPB Conservation Science There will be a full survey of breeding hen harriers in the UK and Isle of Man in 2016. The last national survey of this UK red-listed species...
  • Six ways you can help hen harriers
    Hen harriers are in trouble – that’s not news to anyone. The RSPB continues to urge the government to crack down on illegal persecution in the uplands in a bid to give these birds a chance to re-establish...
  • Results from the National Willow Tit survey
    In recent years, our endemic race of willow tit (Poecile montanus kleinschmidti) have been lost from large areas of southern and eastern England and from parts of north and south Wales. Senior Conservation...
  • Organising the UK-wide hen harrier Survey in 2016
    Blog by Simon Wotton , Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Today we are releasing the result of the fifth complete national survey for hen harriers, which was carried...
  • 2016 UK & Isle of Man hen harrier survey
    The results of the 2016 UK & Isle of Man hen harrier survey has just been published in a paper in the journal Bird Study . Blog post by Simon Wotton , Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for...