January

The following management recommendations are made based on our experience of the past fifty years and the body of research we have carried out at the GWCT.

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.

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.