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electric fence. Of the 29 monitored, 20 nests successfully hatched and of the nine fenced, six successfully hatched. Of the nests that didn’t hatch, the cameras provided crucial information on the causes of nest failure.
The information collected will help tailor plans for spring, for example, when additional electric fences will be deployed in areas where fox predation occurred unexpectedly last year.
RSPB conservation advisor, Hilary McGuire, said: “Using the trail cameras to monitor wader nests has given us invaluable information on the hatching success of these species, as well as the causes of nest losses.
“This allows us to provide both general and tailored advice to the farmers we work with on how to improve hatching success and get more wader chicks on the ground.
The electrified predator exclusion fences have been effective at keeping out foxes and badgers, as well as curious livestock.”
“We are grateful to the FiPL programme for their support in purchasing this equipment, to the volunteers who spend many hours monitoring waders, finding nests, and going through footage, and to the farmers who partner with us in this monitoring, and who manage their farms every day to support our precious wildlife.”
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