News category: Birds

Habitat management for Nightingales |New guidelines published by BTO

Posted in: Biodiversity, Birds, Protected Species, Surveys and Assessment
Date posted: 30 June 2015

Earlier this year, the British Trust for Ornithology published Managing Scrub for Nightingales: A BTO Guide for Land Managers and Conservation Practitioners. This followed a period of research jointly funded by Anglian Water to understand why the Nightingale population has declined by 90% since the 1960s.

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Birds benefit local economies

Posted in: Biodiversity, Birds, Urban Ecosystems
Date posted: 15 April 2015

Results of a new study published in the journal Urban Ecosystems found that city residents value having common birds around their homes. In turn, birds benefit local economies as residents invest in food and nesting structures.

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