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Evaluating the HLS Farmland Bird Package: 2016 re-survey - LM0463
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Description
This project comprises four modules of work relating a re-survey of farms under HLS agreements that are deploying bundles of options designed to benefit farmland birds, ie delivering the so-called HLS Farmland Bird Package (FBP). These farms were first surveyed in 2011, before the bird–friendly options were deployed, so the 2016 survey will take place 5 years after management has taken place which should be long enough to detect statistically significant responses by the birds if they have occurred. |
Objective
Module 1. Evaluating the HLS Farmland Bird Package: collate, standardise and centrally archive data from 2011, and pre-survey coordination for 2016 re-survey
Module 2. Evaluating The HLS Farmland Bird Package – breeding season re-survey (Dorset & Wiltshire), data analyses and reporting
Module 3 Evaluating the HLS Farmland Bird Package – breeding season re-survey in Kent, Hampshire & Sussex (South Downs), Gloucestershire (Cotswolds) and Warwickshire, to feed into Module 2 analysis
Module 4 Evaluating the HLS Farmland Bird Package – provision of BBS data as a control stratum
Across all 33 FBP sites, analyses of 2011/ 2016 data which will allow quantification of:
• changes in the farm-scale abundance of key species over time on the FBP sites
• relationships between numbers of key farmland bird species and the amount of bird-friendly habitat created on the FBP sites
• whether the breeding territories of a selection of key farmland bird species are associated with the distributions of key Environmental Stewardship options
• changes in population trends on FBP sites relative to those in the surrounding wider countryside (as measured by BBS – Module 4)
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Time-Scale and Cost
From:
2016
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To:
2017
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Cost: £124,601 |
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Contractor / Funded Organisations
British Trust For Ornithology (BTO) |
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