Make your birdwatching count!

You go out birdwatching and you share your sightings on the Bird Blog, so you may wonder what more you can do!?!  You may not realise just how valuable your efforts really are, so have a think about this!

• How can we know if a species really is rare or threatened if we don't have an accurate picture of where they are and how their population or range is changing over time?
• Today's common species may be tomorrow's rare species; we won't know its happening and won't be able to help, if we don't know where they are.
• Monitoring species can also help us detect other kinds of change, such as climatic change.

The Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust knows that many of our reserves are visited by keen birders on a regular basis and yet (with the exception of Bird Group records for Dolydd Hafren) we receive very few records.  Since we are responsible for managing these sites, it is critical we know which species are using them!

So, lets make a new start in 2011; send your sightings to me, Tammy Stretton, at the Trust (tammy@montwt.co.uk).  If you regularly record on the same site, you may wish to use an excel spreadsheet for your recording; Tammy can provide just the thing!

Want to know what information to provide? Take a look at our biological recording page.

What if your sightings are not on a Trust reserve, but you want to make them count? BTO's Birdtrack gives you all the online bird recording space you could ever need!