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Since 2011, the Wharncliffe Heathlands Trust have installed 420 bird boxes across the reserve and nearby woodland — transforming the area into a thriving haven for wildlife. In 2015, the first pied flycatchers bred here, and today the site supports more territories than anywhere else in South Yor…

Edited by Richard Hill, Birds in the Sheffield Area 2021 was published in October 2025 with help of the major sponsors Foothills. The cover of a Long-tailed Skua in the Mayfield Valley was created by Ben Green and the textis interleaved with colour illustrations by Ben Green and Richard Dale. The…

The Breeding Bird Survey looks at about 80 randomly selected one-kilometre squares in Derbyshire each year in order to assess the state of our breeding bird populations. Given the randomness in their selection and the varied geography of Derbyshire, some of those inevitably fall on the high moorlan…

As part of the ongoing monitoring of the local Ring Ouzel population across the Eastern Moors Partnership (EMP) and Stanage, the team of staff & volunteers at RSPB EMP are this year taking a closer look at post-breeding dispersal and feeding patterns across our area.  Reports and records o…