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Our Projects

Below are examples of some of the long running projects we're involved in: Big Farmland Bird Count > PARTRIDGE Project > SAMARCH Project > Waders for Real > We also run three long-term monitoring programmes, the Partridge Count Scheme, National Gamebag Census and Sussex Sttudy, wh...

Partridges and raptors

Chick Food Index

Farmland bird diets

A Sussex success story

Guidelines on rearing for release

Predation control and conservation

Species

Birds Grey partridge > Common pheasant > Red grouse > Black Grouse > Birds of prey > Lapwing and other waders > Woodcock > Songbirds > Fish Salmon > Trout > Grayling > Pike > Mammals Brown hare > Mountain hare > Water vole > Deer > American mink &g...

Facts and figures

We employ over 100 staff, including many scientists, and run over 60 research projects - many in collaboration with universities supervising PhD students. We have an annual income of £6.8 million mostly coming from members, donations, fundraising events, sponsorship and charitable trusts. The re...

History of the Trust

A severe outbreak of the disease Strongylosis in grey partridges in 1931 led Major HG Eley (a cartridge manufacturer employed by ICI) to establish the ICI Game Research Station at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. He gave a research grant to Doug Middleton at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford, ...