January

We did it! Our newsletter has officially reached 100,000 subscribers!

You only have until midnight on Tuesday 24th January to enter our Grand Grouse Draw where you could win a day's driven grouse shooting for 8 guns in the stunning Lammermuir hills plus accommodation for 16 guests.

Dyfan Jenkins moved up to Auchnerran in late October and started on our demonstration farm as its new head shepherd/livestock manager in early November, taking over the role from Allan Wright

GWCT research has helped increase our knowledge of woodcock in recent
decades, but that alone does not help support the species. Applying this understanding to develop conservation guidelines is our best chance
of reversing the downward trend in breeding woodcock numbers.

A full day ‘in-person’ symposium examining the conservation of Scotland’s four grouse species – red grouse, black grouse, capercaillie and ptarmigan - is taking place on 5 May 2023 at Balhousie Castle, Perth.

The 2023 GWCT Derbyshire & South Yorkshire Auction is now online with some outstanding lots to bid on.

Trail cameras can be a valuable tool for monitoring wildlife populations but you can never be sure of what you might see, especially once you add bait into the mix. 

Brush up on your knowledge surrounding best practice bird husbandry, drive design and predation management as well as many other topics covered by the GWCT part-time gamekeepers course.

 Our BIGGEST-EVER January sale is live, and we're offering amazing deals on over 50 products with up to 50% off.

GWCT staff members have co-authored a recent article, “Vocal individuality measures reveal spatial and temporal variation in roding behaviour in Woodcock”, published in the ornithological journal Ibis.