Wildlife

Here you will find information about all the wildlife on the reserve. To send us information about a sighting, please use our visitor sightings page.

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Waterfowl Count February 2012

Waterfowl Count February 2012

Although we had an icy February, the hardier members of the team still managed to get the count done, and here it is.

Waterfowl Count January 2012

Waterfowl Count January 2012

Here are the numbers of waterfowl counted, shown by species and area of the reserve.

Celebrating our Woodlands Photography Competition

Celebrating our Woodlands Photography Competition

Join in with our free woodland photography competition and then come along to our Woodland Day on April 14th to find out if your a winner!

Join in the Surveys

Join in the Surveys

We all love to count and that’s what counts in the 2012 surveys

Waterfowl Count December 2011

Waterfowl Count December 2011

Our monthly waterfowl figures for December 2011. Click through to see the numbers of species in each area of the reserve.

Recent Bird Sightings

Recent Bird Sightings

Please send records of any sightings to: tim@rutlandwater.org.uk or follow me on twitter @rutlandbirds for quick up dates.

Waterfowl Count November 2011

Waterfowl Count November 2011

Our monthly waterfowl figures for November 2011. Click through to see the numbers of species in each area of the reserve.

Drake Gadwall

Another Record Wildfowl Count

To hear more about these record numbers make sure you tune in to Sally Pepper Goes Wild on BBC East Midlands Today at 6:30pm tomorrow (Thursday) evening.

Figure 1.  RIS light traps are operated at a wide variety of sites throughout Britain. This one at Glencoe in Scotland has been in operation for the last 10 years.

The Rothamsted light-trap network

In this article Ian Woiwod, Phil Gould & Kelvin Conrad describe the long-running national light-trap network, lay to rest some common misunderstandings about its origin and purpose, and present some results from recent work on moth declines.