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 1 June 2018

Wetland Bird Survey still going strong after 70 years



PUBLISHED: 15:16 21 May 2018 | UPDATED: 15:16 21 May 2018

Jointly funded by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), RSPB and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), in association with WWT, the latest WeBS report, Waterbirds in the UK 2016/17, released last week, reports on 110 waterbird populations and underlines the importance of the UK for millions of migratory waterbirds which spend the winter here or pass through on their way to their breeding grounds in the north and east.

Beginning as the National Wildfowl Counts in the winter of 1947/48, in response to apparent declines in the numbers of ducks and geese, 70 years later the scheme has expanded to include all wintering waterbirds, counted every month by 3,000 volunteers around the UK.


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