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A
welcome page for those new to www.eakringbirds.com and a
short account of what we're about. |
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Page showing all the latest updates to the website during
the current year. Many pages are frequently updated,
sometimes on a daily basis, which is something we have
become well known for over the years. |
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Our most popular pages are our photo galleries. These
thumbnail galleries have been constructed and developed over
many years and have been designed to be as 'novice' friendly
as possible, to try and help make identification easier.
They are often used by many people across the UK as their
first source of identification and have an extremely good
reputation with many UK naturalists. Clicking on any
thumbnail will take you to one of nearly 3,200 individual
species pages, so there's plenty of interest. |
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There is a wide range of pdf files available which we have
written and compiled over the years. These are available to
download and include a number of regularly updated county
species lists and atlases never published before. We have
often specialised in the more neglected Orders, producing
pdf lists and atlases on Nottinghamshire's Myriapoda,
Isopoda, Arachnida, Pseudoscorpion and Opilione fauna. |
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Provides links to all
invertebrate sections and individual pages. |
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Approximately 50 pages available, aimed at providing direct
identification help between similar, or difficult to
separate species, plus photographic comparison of particular
invertebrate families. Some of these pages have been written
following specific requests, after visitors to
www.eakringbirds.com failed to find any easy comparison
resources in books or on the internet at the time. |
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A
selection of pages featuring some of the less well known
sites in Nottinghamshire, with habitats warranting further
recording and study. In some need of updating with new
sites, most of the sites featured, would probably yield more
to interest the entomologist than the ornithologist. But
those with a wider interest, will certainly benefit from a
visit to any of these sites during the Spring and Summer
months.
Sites currently featured include the former
Gedling Pit Top, now a country park and greatly reduced in
habitat, Shirebrook Pit Wood, showing how our former
colliery sites should have been done and Rushpool Open Space
in Forest Town, Mansfield. |
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Thanks to an increasing number of recorders and
contributors, we continue to receive records contributing to
the invertebrate distribution maps for VC56
(Nottinghamshire) which we produce and publish here on
www.eakringbirds.com. After a number of years, these maps
have become increasingly representative of species'
distribution within the county. As such, local naturalists
are now able to research the distribution of nearly 2,900
species, which is something we never had available to us a
decade ago. |
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New visitors to www.eakringbirds.com often wonder why a
website with an ornithological title is actually all about
invertebrates. But although the direction of the website
changed many years ago (around 2008) there is still masses
of information on considerably more than a hundred pages,
all detailing the ornithological history of the website's
original Eakring and Kersall recording area.
Much of
the recording work at Eakring involved visible migration,
breeding bird surveys (both including annual reviews) and a
number of specific studies detailing the often changing
status the area's farmland birds. There is a comprehensive
list of all rare bird records, rarity accounts, migrant
arrival and departure dates between 1998 and 2012, three
systematic species lists and accounts for 1998-2007, 2008
and 2009.
At the time, www.eakringbirds.com was well
known for its daily/regular updates and the bird news page
was always well visited. While the latest bird news has not
been updated since 2013, there are links to previous monthly
bird news dating back to 2003, which give an insight into
what can turn up on a small local patch in arable
Nottinghamshire ..... with an enormous amount of effort and
dedication. |
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Numerous available pages covering a variety of topics. Most
are ornithologically related, but there are also pages
covering our media appearences, macro photography with a
Nixon Coolpix 4500, a list of current county recorders
(invertebrates only) the Brown Hare at Eakring and many
other odd topics and assorted pages. |
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Over 20 pages with a link to the farmland of Eakring and
Kersall and its wildlife. There are pages featuring the
local SINC and SSSI sites, the main sites visited within the
recording area, the original proposals for a wind farm and a
worrying look at hedgerow loss between 1950 and 2007,
complete with comparison maps. |
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A
total of 85 early learning pdf files to download, all
designed, written and produced by ourselves to promote
interest in the natural world from an early age. There are a
wide variety of series including fact sheets, information
sheets on the insects of Sherwood Forest, minibeast hunt
checksheets, fun puzzles, word searches and more.
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