Welcome to Cotswold Bird Surveys
Conservation of birds through local knowledge and experience
About COTSWOLD BIRD SURVEYS
Background
Services & Fees
Services & Fees
Cotswold Bird Surveys was set up in 2018 by bird expert and ecologist Anna Field to provide landscape-scale bird surveys and advice to farmers and land managers in the Cotswolds and surrounding areas to:
- survey bird populations on farms
- provide baseline data prior to changes in land management
- monitor bird population changes over time
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Cotswold Bird Surveys was set up in 2018 by bird expert and ecologist Anna Field to provide landscape-scale bird surveys and advice to farmers and land managers in the Cotswolds and surrounding areas to:
- survey bird populations on farms
- provide baseline data prior to changes in land management
- monitor bird population changes over time
- provide advice in relation to bird conservation, grants and environmental land management schemes
Services & Fees
Services & Fees
Services & Fees
Breeding bird surveys
Winter bird surveys
Nocturnal thermal imager surveys
Habitat assessments for environmental land management schemes e.g. breeding/wintering wader options
Nest finding
Long-term monitoring projects
Advice on bird conservation, nest boxes, grants and environmental land management schemes
Fees and methodology are set to facilitate landscape-scale bird surveys
Experience
Services & Fees
Experience
Anna Field is an experienced ornithologist, having carried out a wide range of surveys for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and other organisations over the last 20 years. She holds an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a masters degree in Conservation Ecology from Oxford Brookes University and t
Anna Field is an experienced ornithologist, having carried out a wide range of surveys for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and other organisations over the last 20 years. She holds an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a masters degree in Conservation Ecology from Oxford Brookes University and through these has an excellent understanding of bird survey techniques and data analysis. She holds a BTO ringing 'A' permit and Schedule 1 licence and is an experienced nest finder and recorder for a number of species. She has a particular interest in raptor ecology, monitors a large number of Barn Owl sites in the North Cotswolds and is an active member and trustee of the Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group. She is an associate member of CIEEM