Promoting landscapes that are better for wildlife

One way to determine where habitat restoration might most usefully occur is to use computer models to predict how changing landscapes in particular areas might best benefit different wildlife groups....

Does the timing of Blue Tit breeding vary with woodland composition?

How do bats respond to different approaches to the management of conifer plantations

Conifer woodland covers 1.6 million hectares of the UK and is an important source of economic revenue. There is increasing recognition that commercial forests should deliver other benefits beyond...

Do Marsh Tits modify their behaviour to reduce competition?

Competition between species has been put forward as a possible reason for the declines seen in some bird species, including Marsh Tit and Willow Tit, but confirming a causal link between competition...

The impacts of farming activities on Europe’s breeding birds

Using the most comprehensive dataset of its kind, this study explores the drivers of population change in European birds.

Using satellite data to assess spatial drivers of bird diversity

Acoustic monitoring sheds new light on North York Moors wildlife

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Impact of woodland agri-environment management on woodland structure and target bird species

Woodland management and birds. Part 2. Conservation measures and strategies

Woodland management and birds

Rewilding and intervention: complementary philosophies for nature conservation in Britain

Citizen science reveals patterns in Pied Flycatcher breeding

New research uses data from BirdTrack and the Nest Record Scheme to investigate how adaptable breeding Pied Flycatchers are to a changing climate.

The State of the UK's Birds 2020

Providing an annual overview of the status of the UK’s breeding and non-breeding bird species in the UK, this year’s report highlights the continuing poor fortunes of the UK’s woodland birds,...

Irregular silviculture positively influences multiple bat species in a lowland temperate broadleaf woodland

The study was carried out on the Rushmore Estate on Cranborne Chase in southern England and forms part of a wider biodiversity project overseen by Andy Poore, Forest Manager, Rushmore Estate and...

Breeding bird communities within a parkland-woodland continuum: the distinctiveness of wood-pasture

Estimates of Breeding Bird Abundance and Habitat Use in Thetford Forest Park

Flowers of the Brecks Part 2: Wetland, Woodland & Farmland

Climatic and soil conditions in the Brecks are such that a particularly notable assemblage of plants is found locally. Several species have their British headquarters here, while for others it is...

Agri-environment effects on birds in Wales: Tir Gofal benefited woodland and hedgerow species

Breeding bird assemblages supported by developing upland shrub woodland are influenced by micro-climate and habitat structure

Effects on bird abundance and species richness of edge restructuring to include shrubs at the interface between conifer plantations and moorland

An efficient survey method for estimating populations of marsh tits Poecile palustris, a low-density woodland passerine

How can assemblage structure indices improve monitoring of change in bird communities using ongoing survey data?

Can volunteers’ data be used to monitor land cover change?

A new study shows that Breeding Bird Survey data can help with habitat monitoring. 

Understanding the influence of habitat upon breeding Woodcock numbers in Britain

Woodcock are in long-term decline. Due to incomplete knowledge of their habitat requirements, there is uncertainty as to what causes these declines. A BTO/GWCT survey investigates Woodcock habitat...

Implications of transformation to irregular silviculture for woodland birds: A stand wise comparison in an English broadleaf woodland

Woodland birds in Britain have undergone significant long term declines since the late 1960s, associated in particular with changes in woodland structure in general, and loss of early successional...