Do you want to make space for #TurtleDoves on your land? 🕊️ We provide free support and advice across the #East and #SouthEast of #England 🖊️ Let us help you to help a #birdonthebrink 🆘 Find your local advisor here: bit.ly/34GI1JS.

Fantastic talk by Anthony from Nature Friendly Farming Network talking about nature friendly farming and his work at Quex Park as part of the Operation Turtle Dove project to a group of Kent farmers. Very inspiring ☺️

Swifts need your help! We are blocking them out of their homes. Sign @writerHannahBT's petition to make swift bricks compulsory in new housing. We need 100,000 signatures by April 30th, so please sign + share! #TheFeatherSpeech

Small, dense plantations would be ideal for converting to open tall scrub for Turtle Doves Operation Turtle Dove

In today’s #ConservationAction blog we’re heading down to the woods with the #RSPBEcology Gareth Fisher to discover more about our amazing woodlands & how RSPB & partners are helping woodland nature. community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/acti… @shorelinekelly

❗️❗️Today is the day! Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier is open for applications 👀 #TurtleDoves can benefit from some of the options, like hedgerow management (BE3) and cultivated areas for arable plants (AB11) 🌼 Can you help to support this much-loved species?!

In today’s #ConservationAction blog we’re heading out to the fields with RSPB Andy Evans to discover more about some inspiring farmland conservation work community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/acti…

GOT TO 70,000 SIGNATURES! The birds need 100,000 by 30th April. TELL EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER MET ⬇️🪶petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6267…

📢🐣NESTING SEASON HAS ARRIVED for #beachnestingbirds! Last year YOU helped us double the number of fledged chicks at the #PloversinPeril site- let's see what another successful year can do for a very special bird in decline! Find out how you can help👇 bit.ly/3MiPNxp

Ringed Plover have already been driven from many beaches, as you can read here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/on-… Good luck to volunteer beach wardens.

Amazing work by our Farm Manager Georgie Bray (Georgie Bray) demonstrating that nature-friendly farming can be commercially viable and benefit both us and wildlife at #RSPBHopeFarm! Kudos to the team and volunteers🙌 Link to the article: bit.ly/3KsiFAL

A lovely example of a small change to help #TurtleDoves by one of our landowners.🕊️ On poor soil this lawn won't grow tall but leaving it unmown allows plants to flower and seed. It also becomes food for insects and pollinators.🌱🌼🐝 #NoMow #LetItGrow #FarmWildlife 📸Eliza Leat

New record count: 1587 Nordmann's Greenshank (>est. world popn of 1300!!) at Tiaozini, Yancheng, China's Yellow Sea World Heritage Site, by Hongyan Yang, among rich tapestry of 115117 birds of 42 spp. Great news ahead of World Coastal Forum, Yancheng 25-27 Sept. #BirdsSeenIn2023.

Three weeks to go to win a pair of Leica Binoculars! Leica Nature & Birding No artistic skills needed. DOODLE a DOVE in support of the North Yorkshire Turtle Dove Project North York Moors NP Entry details here: northdove.co.uk/art-projects/

👏to all the farmers involved in this with Operation Turtle Dove farminguk.com/news/over-250-…

Operation Turtle Dove🕊️ Richard, our Reserve Manager & Ed Tooth of the RSPB, had a good chat with Anna Hill from Farming Today about Operation Turtle Dove. The interview will be aired soon as part of the Farming Today programme on Radio 4 broadcast each weekday morning 5.45 to 6am.

Amazing farmland bird northessexfarmcluster walk today. Great to be able to promote Game&WildConTrust #BigFarmlandBirdCount and offer help with surveys thanks to Essex Birdwatching Society volunteers. Got very close to the Great White Egret (circled) busy hunting voles in the 🍀 ley.

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This beautiful place is Betteshanger Country Park. Home to Turtle Doves, Lizard Orchids and countless other rare species such as Fiery Clearwing moth. The future of this special place hangs in the balance as Dover District Council decides whether to allow a hotel and wave park to be built here

A thread on inappropriate (re)introductions. It’s a little long (sorry) and perhaps a little grumpy (sorry again). Arguing against the work of others is rarely a good look, especially as we are all, essentially, on the same side, but… 1/21