Activity
Environmental Change Network: Breeding birds

Observations of the devastating effects of agricultural pesticides on bird populations during the late 1950s and 1960s strengthened the view that only objective, regular and scientific monitoring of birds can give an insight into the changing situation of different species. It was also realised that such monitoring can also reflect perturbations affecting the wider environment. Birds are relatively easy to observe and are thus good subjects for a monitoring programme. Moreover, the large number of bird species, over 200, which breed in the United Kingdom have different feeding patterns and occupy many different habitats, making it likely that at least some species will react to particular environmental changes of whatever type. It is well recognised that bird populations are affected by many man-induced factors in addition to pesticides and other agro-chemicals. Land use changes such as drainage and afforestation affect both nesting sites and food availability. Birds are also affected by variations in climate and in particular by periods of severe weather, either in the UK, for species over-wintering here, or in other countries for migratory species.

General Information

Environmental domain
Biosphere
Purpose Of collection
Data series
Keywords
ECN
breeding bird
British Trust for Ornithology
Breeding Bird Survey
ornithology
BTO
Parameters measured
habitat
Links to data
UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) bird data: 1995-2012

Location

Bounding box
Bounding box. S: 49.864,   E: 1.768,   N: 60.861,   W: -8.648

Costs/Funding

Future Funding Status
Unsure

Contacts

Lead organisation
Sue Rennie Centre for Ecology & Hydrology LANCASTER LA1 4AP UK ecnccu@ceh.ac.uk
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Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute BELFAST BT9 5PX UK info@afbini.gov.uk http://www.afbini.gov.uk
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon WILTSHIRE SN2 1UH UK +44 (0)1793 413200 http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/
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Natural Resources Wales Ty Cambria 29 Newport Road CARDIFF CF24 0TP UK enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk +44 (0) 300 065 3000 http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/
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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Porton Down Salisbury WILTSHIRE SP4 0JQ UK +44 (0) 1980 613000 https://www.dstl.gov.uk/
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Defra 17 Smith Square LONDON SW1P 3JR UK defra.helpline@defra.gsi.gov.uk +44 20 7238 6951 https://www.gov.uk/defra
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Environment Agency National Customer Contact Centre PO Box 544 ROTHERHAM S60 1BY UK enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk 03708 506 506 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency
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Forestry Commission 620 Bristol Business Park Coldharbour Lane BRISTOL BS16 1EJ UK fe.england@forestry.gsi.gov.uk +44 (0) 117 906 6000 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/
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Welsh Government Cathays Park CARDIFF CF10 3NQ UK 0300 0603300 http://wales.gov.uk/
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Natural England Foundry House 3 Millsands Riverside Exchange SHEFFIELD S3 8NH UK enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk 0300 060 3900 http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/
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Natural Environment Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue SWINDON SN2 1EU UK +44 (0) 1793 411500 http://www.nerc.ac.uk
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Northern Ireland Environment Agency nieainfo@doeni.gov.uk 0845 302 0008 http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/
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Scottish Environment Protection Agency Erskine Court Castle Business Park STIRLING FK9 4TR UK +44 (0) 1786 457700 http://www.sepa.org.uk/
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Scottish Government St. Andrew's House Regent Road EDINBURGH EH1 3DG UK ceu@scotland.gsi.gov.uk 0300 244 4000 http://www.scotland.gov.uk
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Scottish Natural Heritage Leachkin Road INVERNESS IV3 8NW UK enquiries@snh.gov.uk +44 (0) 1463 725000 http://www.snh.gov.uk
Other
ADAS Pendeford House Pendeford Business Park Wobaston Rd Pendeford WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5AP UK enquiries@adas.co.uk 0845 766 0085 http://www.adas.co.uk/
Other
Forest Research Alice Holt Lodge Farnham SURREY GU10 4LH UK research.info@forestry.gsi.gov.uk 01420 22255 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Other
Marine Scotland Science 375 Victoria Road PO Box 101 ABERDEEN AB11 9DB UK +44 (0)1224 876544 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science
Other
Rothamsted Research Harpenden HERTFORDSHIRE AL5 2JQ UK + 44 (0) 1582 763 133 http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk
Other
The James Hutton Institute Craigiebuckler Craigiebuckler ABERDEEN AB15 8QH UK info@hutton.ac.uk +44 (0) 844 928 5428 http://www.hutton.ac.uk/
Other
UK Upland Waters Monitoring Network http://awmn.defra.gov.uk/

Metadata

Publication status
PUBLIC
Record identifier
2874f770-efda-11e3-ac10-0800200c9a66
Last modified
2017-08-21 11:15:46
Metadata author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ecnccu@ceh.ac.uk
Topic categories
Environment