Nightjar Survey Training

The Blackdown Hills National Landscape partnership works to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the this protected landscape. We provide information about the local history and natural environment, involve people and organisations in looking after the landscape, and encourage people to visit and enjoy the area.The Blackdown Hills National Landscape (the new name for the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) is a tranquil and relatively isolated landscape, on the border of Devon and Somerset. The area is rich in wildlife and heritage. For many, it epitomises the English countryside, with hedgerows and copses, small farms with intricate field patterns, deep valleys and narrow, winding lanes.

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The Blackdown Hills AONB in partnership with the Forestry Commission (FC), Somerset Ornithological Society (SOS) and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) are undertaking a scheme to monitor the population of singing male Nightjars within the Blackdown Hills AONB both on FC land and other sites.
Nightjars are nocturnal birds and can be seen ‘hawking’ for food at dawn and dusk, they can be found on heathlands, moorlands, in open woodland with clearings and in recently felled conifer plantations. They are a migrant breeder overwintering in areas such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nightjars are more often heard but not seen with their distinctive ‘churring’ call. 
The recording scheme aims to contribute to long term recording data of Nightjar populations within the Blackdown Hills AONB and across Somerset with the goal of finding out more about the habitats they use and what management work can be undertaken for their benefit. There will be a partner scheme undertaken in the Quantock Hills AONB.
We are looking to recruit a team of Nightjar Survey Volunteers to work alongside staff and volunteers from the AONB, SOS and BTO. Survey volunteers will need to attend a survey training day which will involve running through the theory of the surveys and identification of the Nightjar - with the plan to undertake surveys on the 20th June (dusk) and 13th July (dawn). Survey sites will be allocated to volunteers after survey training events.

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