We receive approximately 80 barn owls per year
The Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme (PBMS) is a long-term, national monitoring scheme that quantifies the concentrations of contaminants in the livers and eggs of selected species of predatory and fish-eating birds in Britain.
We monitor the levels of contaminants to determine how and why they vary between species and regions, how they are changing over time, and the effects that they may have on individual birds and on their populations.
The Scheme is run by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and is funded jointly by Natural England , the Environment Agency (EA) , the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) and CEH.
LATEST PBMS REPORT PUBLISHED
The latest PBMS has has been published and can be down-loaded from our Results and Publications page.
This report gives long-term trends for the complete range of chemical contaminants that are monitored in scheme; including PCBs, metals, including mercury and second genration anticoagulant rodenticides.
This work would not be possible without the public sending in the bodies of birds of prey that they find.
If you find a dead bird of prey that you wish to submit to the PBMS then we kindly request that you keep the bird in a cold place, and contact Lee Walker :-
Lee Walker, Tel. 01524 595830
e-mail: leew@ceh.ac.uk
This site was developed by the Biological Records Centre, CEH © 2006
