The county bird club for Oxfordshire, holding monthly indoor meetings and regular outings to good local birdwatching areas and publishing the annual Report on the Birds of Oxfordshire.
The OOS takes an active interest in local conservation issues, and has ties with the BTO, RSPB, the County Ecologist, BBOWT and other conservation bodies. It supports and helps to co-ordinate various bird monitoring schemes within the county.
UK currently holds approximately a quarter of the global Curlew population, with estimates for England of about 30,000 pairs. National monitoring data show that this population has been in long-term decline since the 1970s and has almost halved in the UK over the last 20 years. In lowland southern England, the population has declined to about 500 pairs, with many colonies on the verge of local extinction. Read more ...
"30 by 30" – Bringing our wildlife back - Ian Jelley, Director of Landscape Recovery, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth and 16% of all of our species are under threat from extinction as a result of human activity. So what can we do? The Wildlife Trusts believe in the science that demonstrates if 30% of the UK land and sea supports nature then our nature will recover. Read more ...
A survey where observers are each given a randomly selected 1km square and record all the species encountered and numbers of each for a minimum period of 2 hours between 9am and noon. Read more ...
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