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We need to understand what’s happening to our wading birds. With your donation, you can help us to answer the difficult questions about where our curlew, lapwing and woodcock go, and why. Building on our Woodcock Watch campaign, this new tagging project is our most ambitious yet.
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Situation
The UK’s breeding populations of these species are in decline. Your donation can help to show why this is happening and how those managing the countryside can reverse it. Every adult bird we fit with a GPS tag gives us more information about the importance of habitat, food availability and predation in areas where these birds are disappearing fastest. We need to raise £568 for each bird we then carefully track.
Solution
We need to raise funds to tag birds this spring – woodcock, curlew and lapwing. Each of these species is in decline and red-listed in the UK. The tags will provide hourly locations for three to four years, enabling us to determine adult feeding areas, movements outside the breeding season and links between breeding and wintering sites. Using GSM technology, we can download their locations without the need to relocate each bird.