Bird Conservation Targeting Project

Bird Conservation Targeting Project

Making your BirdTrack records count for conservation

The Bird Conservation Targeting Project is an exciting new joint project between Natural England, RSPB, BTO and Forestry Commission England. The project collects bird records from many sources, including your BirdTrack records, county bird clubs and other national surveys.

All of the sightings are validated to ensure accuracy, and the results can help to target valuable resources towards important bird sites. The project identifies these sites by mapping the distributions of farmland and woodland birds of current conservation concern. In this way, we can all help to influence how millions of pounds in grant payments is distributed through agri-environment and woodland schemes, such as Environmental Stewardship in England and the English Woodland Grant Scheme.

The project currently only covers England, and results and maps are available online now via Nature On The Map. In the next two years though, the project as a whole will be expanded to include the whole of the UK and results will also be available online.

You can really see the value of this project (and your sightings) by looking at some key species. As we add more records, these maps will improve and give a better picture of the distribution of these particular species.

Woodlark As this species continues to spread, it will be interesting to see how this map changes over time.	View map	Tree Pipit Note the hot-spots for this species and also how it may have disappeared from some areas in the south east and north west.	View map
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Ring Ouzel The restricted breeding distribution of this enigmatic species is nicely shown here, with birds restricted to certain habitats.	View map	Marsh Tit Compare the map for Marsh Tit with that for Tree Pipit, and note similar changes in the south east and north west.	View map
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To see some maps of results for your region, click on the files below:

South West	South East	West Midlands
Nightjar	Lesser Spotted Woodpecker	Curlew
Tree Pipit	Nightingale	Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Marsh Tit	Wood Warbler	Pied Flycatcher
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East Midlands	East of England	Yorkshire and the Humber
Turtle Dove	Grey Partridge	Ring Ouzel
Yellow Wagtail	Woodlark	Redstart
Grasshopper Warbler	Corn Bunting	Whinchat
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North West	North East
Woodcock	Ring Ouzel
Long-eared Owl	Redstart
Twite	Whinchat

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