To celebrate International Vulture Awareness Day 2018, we invited you to take part in our Literary Competition.
We are extremely pleased to announce that Katie Harrington is the recipient of the first Marion Paviour Award. The purpose of this award is to further research into the conservation of birds of prey and support early-career researchers working towards this goal. We received a large number of high quality applications for the award, however Katie’s application impressed all the judges; her unique and interesting project, and obvious dedication made her stand out from the crowd. Katie is a graduate student from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, USA and the Marion Paviour Award will help her to fund her […]
We’re often asked about breeding birds of prey, so we’ve been catching up with Mike Riley (a senior member of our Bird Team) to find out more about incubation: Incubation is the artificial brooding and rearing of eggs and is sometimes used over natural incubation for a number of reasons: In the case of endangered species, you can sometimes encourage the parent birds to have a second clutch of eggs if you take the first clutch for incubation. If successful, this method increases the total number of chicks for the year. This can sometimes happen in the wild if something has […]
The Trust is currently hosting student Anika Preuss who is researching the effect of fitting data loggers to birds for the purpose of research.
We are grateful to Go Displays, manufacturers of Banner Stands, who have provided us with a free Switch Banner. The banner includes details of our Poison Response Action Campaign and we hope it will help us raise funds for this vital project.
Our Project Officer, Andre Botha, who is based in South Africa, found a White-backed Vulture dangerously entangled in a dead tree. Here is his account of what happened:
This is one of the questions we’re most frequently asked in relation to the Trust’s British Raptor Programme. It is often asked in the context of the potential for using radio-tracking or satellite-tagging as alternatives.
Calling all budding writers and poets! Does the vulture crisis concern you? Does it stir up emotions when you think about vultures and the problems they face? Then, we want to hear from you.
At the Trust, we are fortunate to have many volunteers that work on a variety of different projects and tasks. One of our volunteers in the conservation and research team, Heather Howes, has been working on a project that measures how variations in small mammal populations affect breeding raptors.
It’s open! Our brand new ‘Meet the Burrowers’ exhibit is now ready for you to come and discover more about these cute and curious creatures that nest underground.
