Inland Breeding Wader Habitat SurveyLBC has undertaken the organisation of two Actions for Farmland and Grassland Birds from the new edition of the Lincolnshire Biodiversity Action Plan. These are
1 to use existing records and contacts to identify all sites with probable/ confirmed post-2000 breeding records for curlew, redshank and snipe.
2 to survey identified sites to determine current management and suitability for creation/ restoration of wet grassland.
This information will be used both in assessing loss of suitable habitat over this period, and in targeting sites for future HLS (or succeeding agri-environment funding) for wet grassland restoration or creation for breeding waders.
As a first step, all breeding season records for these 3 species over the last decade, from both our own database and LERC, have been collated. Unfortunately, most give only a vague location, and we are now contacting everyone who supplied these records to ask them for a grid ref of the actual sighting location. If possible this should be a 6-figure ref, but a 4-figure ref is still useful. If you’ve had such a request, please do reply; note that for the purpose of this survey, it doesn’t matter if the waders have stopped breeding, or if you haven’t been there since; we still need to know just where your record came from.
The replies to date have also indicated other members who might have records from these sites, and all these will be followed up. Meantime, if you haven’t received a request, but have records of any of curlew, redshank or snipe (or any other scarcer inland breeding wader, such as oystercatcher) over the last 10 years, please let us have details. Email to
anne.goodall@esl-lincoln.co.uk – all new records received will also go onto the LBC database, unless you indicate that you don’t want them used in this way.
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Andrew Chick Website:
http://www.forktail.co.uk/
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