Henrietta Pringle writes:
Imperial College London and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust are running a project investigating the impacts of biomass crops on farmland birds, and are looking for volunteers to help with nest finding. The main aim of the project is to determine the breeding success of lapwings in biomass and arable crops, so the research team will be looking for a number of nests across a range of (already selected) sites in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. This project is now in its third year, so the aim is to build on previous years' data by monitoring nests until hatching and where possible, observing chick movements.
Some invertebrate sampling in the fields would also be carried out.
Ideally I would be looking for people who could make a regular commitment over the peak field season of late March to June, but help on a more ad-hoc basis would also be appreciated, with a minimum of 2-3 hours per session.
Not only would volunteers be working in close proximity to these species and their normally unobserved nests, but they would also be actively contributing to a vital area of research during this time of rapid biomass expansion. Training would be given, and any help would be acknowledged in the final thesis and any papers that result from the project.
For more information, please contact me at
henrietta.pringle09@imperial.ac.uk_________________
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