RESEARCH PROJECTS - 2016 | Project title Woodcock monitoring Woodcock migration
Lapwings on fallow plots (see p24)
Description
WETLAND RESEARCH IN 2016 Staff
Examination of annual variation in breeding woodcock abundance
Use of satellite tags and geolocators to examine woodcock migration strategies
Assessment of lapwing breeding success on AES fallow plots
of duration to starvation and behavioural responses
Chris Heward, Andrew Hoodless, collaboration with BTO
Andrew Hoodless,Chris Heward, collaboration with ONCFS
Andrew Hoodless, Kaat Brulez,
Strategies for coping with cold Examination of regulation of fat reserves, estimation Carlos Sánchez, Andrew Hoodless weather in woodcock
LIFE+ Waders for Real (see p22) Wader recovery project in the Avon Valley
PhD: Factors influencing breeding woodcock abundance (see p28)
Funding source Shooting Times
Woodcock Club
Shooting Times Woodcock Club, 2010-2017 Private donors, Woodcock Appeal
Defra, The Dulverton Trust, The 2012-2016
Carlos Sánchez, collaboration with RSPB Manydown Trust, Private donor Private donors, Core funds
Lizzie Grayshon, Clive Bealey, Mike Short, Tom Oakley, Daniel Upton, Andrew Hoodless
Landscape-scale and fine-scale habitat relationships Chris Heward. Supervisors: Andrew of breeding woodcock and investigation of drivers of decline
Hoodless, Prof Rob Fuller/BTO, Dr Andrew MacColl/Nottingham University
Project title
Partridge Count Scheme (see p30)
National Gamebag Census (see p40)
Sussex study (see p34)
Partridge over-winter losses Wildlife monitoring at
Rotherfield Park (see p32) Grey partridge
management Capacity building in
Himachal Pradesh, India Cluster Farm mapping
Game crops
Grey partridge recovery (see p38)
Invertebrate database management
British Deer Survey PARTRIDGE Description
PARTRIDGE AND BIOMETRICS RESEARCH IN 2016 Staff
Nationwide monitoring of grey and red-legged partridge abundance and breeding success
Monitoring game and predator numbers with annual bag records
Neville Kingdon, Nicholas Aebischer,
Julie Ewald, William Connock, Emma Popham, Anna Jones, Peter Wood
Nicholas Aebischer, Gillian Gooderham,
Ryan Burrell, William Connock, Emma Popham, Sean Elliott, Anna Jones, Peter Wood
Long-term monitoring of partridges, weeds, invertebrates, Julie Ewald, Nicholas Aebischer,
pesticides and land use on the South Downs in Sussex Steve Moreby, Ryan Burrell, Dr Dick Potts (consultant)
Identifying reasons for high over-winter losses of grey partridges in the UK
Monitoring of land use, game and songbirds for the Rotherfield demonstration project
Researching and demonstrating grey partridge management in Scotland
Nicholas Aebischer, Francis Buner
Francis Buner, Malcolm Brockless, Peter Thompson, Roger Draycott, Julie Ewald
Core funds, GCUSA Core funds
Dave Parish, Hugo Straker, Adam Smith, Whitburgh Farms Merlin Becker
Bird ringing, monitoring and Galliform re-introduction Francis Buner capacity building for Himachal Pradesh Wildlife Department
Generating cluster-scale landscape maps for use by the Advisory Service and the Farm Clusters
Developing perennial game cover mixes
Monitoring grey partridge recovery and impacts on associated wildlife
Modernise and standardise the software for the Sussex and Loddington invertebrate databases
Map the distribution of British deer species
Co-ordinated demonstration of management for partridge recovery and biodiversity in UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
Julie Ewald, Neville Kingdon,
William Connock, Emma Popham Dave Parish, Anna McWilliam,
Hugo Straker
Dave Parish, Hugo Straker Anna McWilliam
Julie Ewald, Nicholas Aebischer,
Philip Nasser, Sean Elliott, Ryan Burrell Ryan Burrell, Anna Jones,
Peter Wood, Julie Ewald Francis Buner, Julie Ewald, Peter
Dave Parish Roger Draycott, John Szczur, Austin Weldon, Fiona Torrance
Project title
Grouse Count Scheme (see p44)
Long-term monitoring of breeding ecology of waders
in the Pennine uplands Black grouse monitoring
Capercaillie brood surveys (see p52)
www.gwct.org.uk Description
UPLANDS RESEARCH IN 2016 Staff
Annual grouse and parasitic worm counts in relation David Baines, David Newborn, to moorland management indices and biodiversity
Annual measures of wader density, lapwing productivity, recruitment and survival
Annual lek counts and brood counts
Surveys of capercaillie and their broods in Scottish forests
David Baines, Harriet Fuller
Philip Warren, David Baines, David Newborn, Matteo Anderle
Kathy Fletcher, David Baines,David Howarth, Mike Richardson, Phil Warren, Amy Withers
Mike Richardson, Kathy Fletcher, Phil Warren, David Howarth
Core funds Core funds SNH, Forest Enterprise Scotland GAME & WILDLIFE REVIEW 2016 | 77 1985- on-going 1989- on-going 1991- on-going Interreg (EU North Sea Region) 2016-2020 Thompson, Nicholas Aebischer, Chris Stoate, Core funds 2007-2016 2010-2018 2011-2020
Forest and Wildlife Department 2013- on-going of Himachal Pradesh
Core funds 2014- on-going
Balgonie Estates Ltd, Core funds, 2014-2020 Kingdom Farming, Kings Seeds
Balgonie Estates Ltd, Core funds, 2014-2020 Kingdom Farming, Kings Seeds
Core funds British Deer Society 2015-2017 2016-2017 Core funds 1968- on-going Core funds 1961- on-going LIFE+ Waders for Real Private funds, Core funds 2014-2017 2014-2018 2013-2018
Date 2003- on-going
Funding source Core funds, GCUSA
Date 1933- on-going
Funding source
Date Core funds, Gunnerside Estate 1980- on-going
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