We record the county's birds in our Annual Report, so we need your Records. We have a stunning Gallery, so we need your photos. We discuss things on Cambirds, we do Research, we have indoor Meetings, we have a Partnership with an African bird-club and we inform you with our regular Bulletins and lots more.
You can see 'What's About?' and we urge you to report promptly interesting sightings to the County Recorder
We hope you enjoy your visit and come back soon.
Next indoor meetings:
Friday 10th May, Cottenham Village College
New Generation Techniques for Penguin Conservation by Tom Hart
Tom Hart is Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the Institute of Zoology, Univeristy of Oxford. His current research interests include the foraging ecology of Macaroni penguins and the population genetics of penguins in the Southern Ocean.
Latest News
The atlas production is well underway and expected to go to the printer in early April.
A message from the Wildlife Trust: Voluntary bird surveyor (Ecology Groups)
Join your local Ecology Group and help monitor local reserves using your skills to identify birds by their songs. Monitoring the structure of our nature reserves is of great importance to the Trust and just one way of approaching this is to focus on the wildlife using that structure. We are looking for new volunteers to join our existing teams, the Ecology Groups, to help carry out breeding bird transects annually, gathering data to sample the birds breeding in woodland and scrub habitats. Reserves currently in need of monitoring include Grafham Water, Waresley and Gransden Wood and other sites in northern Cambridgeshire as well.
Essential skills required include the ability to identify birds by their songs and calls. If you would be interested in joining us or would like further details about the Ecology Groups please contact me, Henry Stanier, Ecology Groups Officer at The Manor House, Broad Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6DH / email ecologygroups@wildlifebcn.org.
Volunteer swan feeders
The WWT Welney Wetland Centre is currently looking for friendly and enthusiastic people to become part of the team of swan feeders, delivering talks to visitors whilst giving food to the wintering wildfowl out on the reserve.
Further details can be found here:
General information
Full role description
For more information, and to apply for this volunteer position please contact Samantha Lee or 01353864027
Cambridgeshire Bird Club now has a Facebook page.
Please take a look.
Do we have your email address?
The bird club bulletin is now available in an electronic format (pdf) that allows us to save paper and also includes enhanced content (such as colour images)
If you would like to receive your bulletin in this format instead of the paper copy please contact cbcbulletin@cambridgebirdclub.org.uk
Video site
The Cambridgeshire Bird Club now has a video blog site here.
Instructions on how to get your videos on the site are also on the page. We will not host videos due to space issues but can embed them if you sent a YouTube (or similar) link.
