As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Friday 22 January 2016

Exeter University crowdfunding initiative to help bird conservation research on Dartmoor

By WMNOVergnault | Posted: January 22, 2016
Charles R Tyler

The project, run by the Dartmoor Upland Bird Nest Group and led by a University of Exeter PhD student, has been studying the breeding of ground-nesting birds for eight years

A new crowdfunding initiative has been launched to help expand bird conservation research on Dartmoor.

The project, run by the Dartmoor Upland Bird Nest Group and led by a University of Exeter PhD student, has been studying the breeding of ground-nesting birds for eight years.

The group have been studying the nests of several declining bird species including robin-sized stonechats, small perching birds whinchats, meadow pipits and cuckoos, in order to better understand their breeding, which is essential to inform conservation.

Each year the group, which consists of local bird enthusiasts, ornithologists and scientists from the University of Exeter, monitor up to 350 bird nests on the upland moors of Dartmoor National Park.



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