{"id":15,"date":"2014-08-01T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/des-workstation\/wordpress\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2021-09-23T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:47:31","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years members of Alnwick Wildlife Group have carried out a range of projects for various organisations, which have included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biodiversity studies of Ford Moss and of Slainsfield Moor for Lord James Joicey at Ford &amp; Etal Estates<\/li>\n<li>A biodiversity study of the Branton Ponds nature reserve near Powburn for John Carr-Ellison at the Hedgeley Estate<\/li>\n<li>A biodiversity study of the land at Middleton and at Greenside Farm for Charlie Bennett at the Middleton North Estate near Scots Gap<\/li>\n<li>On-going surveys (since 2007) of wild bird populations on several lowland farms as part of the Northumberland Estates Grey Partridge conservation scheme. The surveys also include vegetation records.<\/li>\n<li>On-going surveys (since 2007) of wild bird populations on several areas of moorland as part of the Northumberland Estates Red Grouse scheme. The surveys also include vegetation records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Archive page of this website gives access to many of the reports we have produced from these projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New volunteers are always welcome to join in with surveys and in particular to join the team who carry out the regular bird surveys for Northumberland Estates.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the bird surveys are based on a number of \u201ctarget species\u201d which are those most commonly found in the area being surveyed.\u00a0 It is therefore not essential that volunteers have a very wide knowledge and experience of bird recognition.\u00a0 There is always someone willing to help and, if desired, it can be arranged to have a site visit with one of the regular volunteers (and we hope you might become one of those!)<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more details or feel that you would like to get involved, please contact:<\/p>\n<p>George Dodds (Chairman)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 01665 578645<\/p>\n<p>Richard Poppleton (Treasurer\/Secretary)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 01665 578346<\/p>\n<p>Jim Clark (Bird Surveys Co-ordinator)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 01665 604185<\/p>\n<p>If you have an idea for a project, please let us know, and keep in mind the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You should personally be prepared to participate, if not necessarily to lead the project<\/li>\n<li>The scope of the project needs to be realistic for members who are not \u201cexpert\u201d observers<\/li>\n<li>The time required for any project visit(s) should be reasonable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years members of Alnwick Wildlife Group have carried out a range of projects for various organisations, which have included: Biodiversity studies of Ford&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnwickwildlifegroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}