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I’ve been monitoring nests with various designs of wildlife camera for over ten years now. I’ve lost count of how many nests I’ve watched in that time but do you know what, in all the hundreds of hours I’ve found, watched and recorded nests I’ve never formally recorded them with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). A Field Guide to Monitoring Nests by James Ferguson-Lees, Richard Castell and Dave Leech (BTO Sales, Thetford, 2011). The well-illustrated text, coupled with key information on breeding ecology derived from BTO datasets, delivers an impressive amount of information on 146 British and Irish breeding species. The material has been selected to support those involved in nest recording, as well as those wishing to develop their skills in this area. Introductory sections cover general techniques for finding nests, good practice guidelines and review the current legislation surrounding visits to the nests of wild birds. This new book has been produced as an aid to those involved in monitoring nests for research and conservation purposes.Written and illustrated by experts, the guide contains a wealth of information for 146 British and Irish species, together with introductory sections on fieldcraft, legislation, the BTO Nest Record Scheme and the importance of nest monitoring. Available from BTO Sales ( www.bto.org/shop).

The book is 'technical support' for those who collect data for the BTO Nest Record Scheme. I was inspired by a talk given by the third author of this book at a conference earlier in the year and now I am on the look out for a few nests from which to record data. This book tells you which species are priorities for the scheme, what data are most valuable and how they might be used in the future. It's a classic case of how your (or my) very few records can help build a much bigger picture when combined with the data from others whom we have never met or even heard of. The BTO is the UK’s leading bird research organisation. Over thirty thousand birdwatchers contribute to the BTO’s surveys. They collect information that forms the basis of conservation action in the UK. The BTO maintains a staff of 100 at its offices in Norfolk and Stirling, who analyse and publicise the results of project work. The BTO’s investigations are funded by government, industry and conservation organisations. Their wealth of field experience delivers a level of information beyond that seen in other publications on this subject. Dr Dave Leech is a Senior Research Ecologist at the BTO, and also

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I'm rubbish at nests and eggs. I have little experience in finding them and am usually pretty clueless at identifying them when I do stumble across them. This, then, is a book for me. A Field Guide to Monitoring Nests is intended as an aid to those involved in monitoring nests for research and conservation purposes. Written and illustrated by experts, this richly illustrated guide contains a wealth of information for 146 British and Irish species, together with introductory sections on nest-monitoring techniques, nest identification, legislation, the BTO Nest Record Scheme and nest-finding skills. My gripe, a fairly minor one, is that the photographs of eggs and nests are rather small - rather too small to be as helpful as they could be. This is partly an unavoidable consequence of the small, handy, size of the book but isn't helped by the inclusion of photographs of the birds themselves and distribution maps of all species. I can't be alone in knowing quite a bit about bird identification (more, certainly, than these photographs will tell me) and quite a bit about bird distribution in the UK (more certainly than these maps will tell me) but very little about how to tell a Chiffchaff nest from a Willow Warbler nest - am I? But this book does give a lot of clues as to how to distinguish the nests of those two widespread and similar-looking species and I was interested in the answer. That's the type of thing I would expect from this book and there is a lot of such information here. The BTO hopes that this guide will encourage more birders to become involved in nest recording for conservation purposes. The numbers of nests being monitored has been dropping rapidly for some species, particularly open-nesting passerines, which could hinder efforts to understand why their populations are in decline. However, the comprehensive information contained in this guide will be of interest even if you do not want to take part in nest recording. It may even help to change your mind!

Written and illustrated by experts, this guide contains a wealth of information for 145 British and Irish species, together with introductory sections on nest-monitoring techniques, nest identification, legislation, the BTO Nest Record Scheme and nest-finding skills. What's in the guide James Ferguson-Lees and Richard Castell are two of Britain’s leading experts in the field of monitoring nests, having seen and studied the nests of all 146 species covered by this book.

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