PBMS on course for bumper year for bird numbers

With a quarter of the year to go the PBMS team has received over 250 birds to use for their studies.

Lee Walker, coordinator for the scheme, tells us “This is encouraging from a public engagement viewpoint. The scheme relies upon members of the public submitting birds via our free postal system and without their contribution the scheme would not be able to monitor the levels of chemical contaminants in a range of predatory bird species.”

“The more birds we receive the better we can determine whether contaminant levels are increasing or decreasing and what causes those changes. So I’d encourage anyone who finds a dead bird of prey to contact us.”

For more information on how to send in birds to the scheme please see our Packing and sending carcases page

How can you help?

GDPR, Privacy Policy and Cookies

The PBMS website is provided by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology under the terms of the UKCEH Privacy policy which sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Information collected by the PBMS will be used for scientific purposes only under the GDPR lawful basis of Legitimate interests, not shared with any other party and retained for the duration of the project. Cookies may be set on your computer when you visit this site. What are Cookies?