Welcome to the Northants Bird Ringing Group

Welcome to the Northants Ringing Group's new Blog (click to read full post)

  It's aim is to highlight the activities of the group ringing over a wide variety of sites. Reports of ringing sessions will appear her...

Group nest box monitoring

 The group now monitors over  600 nest boxes on various sites, and this number is increasing all the time with the changes to Government Environmental Schemes, which incentivice farmers and land owners to install boxes for target species e.g. Barn Owl and Tree Sparrow.


Box Type

Total

Barn Owl

73

Blue Tit

18

Great Tit

16

Grey Wagtail

2

Kestrel

10

Little Owl

6

Owl (General)

12

Robin

19

Robin/Wren

8

Sparrow terrace ( 2 chamber)

1

Sparrow terrace ( 3 chamber)

7

Spotted Flycatcher

1

Starling

3

Stock Dove

1

Swift

51

Swift Tower (16 compartments)

1

Tawny Owl

26

Tern Raft

5

Tit (General & grouped for Tree Sparrow)

12

Tit (General)

350

Treecreeper

20

Grand Total

642

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