Project Godwit Archives - Spotted in Ely

Conservation Charity Celebrates Regional Revival of Rare Wading Bird with Free Event

Events, News, Organisations, Places to Visit, Tourism / By Alison Cooney

WWT Welney is hosting a special day-long event later this month with the RSPB to mark the end of a seven-year programme that has boosted the numbers of one the UK’s rarest breeding wading birds, the black-tailed godwit, by an incredible 40%. The wetland site will be opening its doors at 6.30am on Sunday, September …

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Critically Endangered Black-Tailed Godwits Thrown Lifeline in the Fens

News, Organisations, Places to Visit / By Alison Cooney

Yesterday, (28th June) saw the final release of hand-raised black-tailed godwits as part of an emergency intervention which has thrown the critically endangered wetland bird a lifeline and helped increase its chances of survival. With this latest release – the last of the project – over 200 headstarted birds will have been released onto the …

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Egg-cellent Conservation Project Helps Rare Birds this Easter

News, Organisations, Places to Visit, Tourism / By Alison Cooney

As birds begin returning this spring, a search for some very special eggs will soon be underway. The work of Project Godwit will resume next month, after last year’s lockdown saw efforts come to a halt on aspects of the project. The first few black-tailed godwits have arrived back in the Fens during the last …

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Chicks of threatened species fledge from Fenland wetlands

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

At WWT Welney, two pairs of black-tailed godwits have managed to fledge three chicks this breeding season. WWT Welney is one of three main breeding sites for black-tailed godwits, and this year nesting attempts were made on the Ouse Washes as well as the adjacent Lady Fen wetlands. Having been created in 2008, Lady Fen’s …

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The chips are down! Miracle birds hatched from ‘muddy potato’ eggs return thousands of miles to rearing site

News, Organisations / By Alison Cooney

Hand-reared black-tailed godwits beat the odds to return to East Anglian reserve from migration. A total of 18 hand reared black-tailed godwits migrate home to the Fens where they were raised as chicks. Project Godwit will release more of the endangered birds in the Fens this year Miracle black-tailed godwits hand-reared at WWT Welney …

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