Grants awarded

Grants awarded in 2021

Investigation of hatching failure in New Zealand Hihi, thought to result in infertility or embryo death arising from in-breeding depression - Institute of Zoology London
Expansion of the BTO's Bird Camp programme across the UK with the aim to organise a camp in Wales where young birders will learn from specialists and Youth Representatives on different aspects of birding BTO
To replace a small wooden hide on Bardsey Island with a stronger more permanent structure for wader viewing and storage space for ringing equipment - Bardsey Bird & Field Observatory
Study of Little Terns at Beacon Lagoons, Spurn through ringing adult birds with the aim to increase sightings and knowledge of movements - Spurn Bird Observatory Trust
Extension to the Save our Curlews work sponsored by BBCT in 2020, locating and protecting curlew nests and radio-tagging chicks to find out what happens to them - Shropshire Ornithological Society
Collection of blood samples and other data from two Western Island wren subspecies to generate their genomes. Information will be used to investigate how they have adapted to life on the islands - Dept. of Zoology, Univ. Of Oxford
Use of GPS tags on Nightjars to provide accurate measurements of timing, location and habitat usage of migrating birds - BTO

Grants awarded in 2020

Save our Curlews - Shropshire Ornithological Society
Curlew Fieldworker's Kit - Curlew Action
Woodpecker Workshop - Hungarian Woodpecker Working Group
West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project
Replacement of Observatory Cabin at South Walney - Walney Bird Observatory
Forty Years of Offshore Recording - North Sea Bird Club
The BTO Youth Representative Scheme - BTO
Protecting South Walney Nature Reserve Gull Colony - Cumbria Wildlife Trust
The Impact of Birds of Teak Invasion into Native Forests - A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute
Bird Hide at Hengistbury Head - Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group

Grants awarded in 2019

To the Southern Colour-ringing Group for the development of dynamic interactive mapping of colour-ringed birds, particularly Brent Geese. (£500)
To Bonita Johnston of the BTO to support GPS tagging of Short-eared Owls to investigate movements and habitat use of individuals throughout the year. (£2000)
To the Abberton Reservoir Ringing Group to train local ringers, and undertake outreach and research based on waterfowl monitoring. (£1950)
To the Galapagos Conservation Trust to investigate causes of rapid decline in Vermillion Flycatchers. (£500)
To the National Trust to support the continuation of the rat eradication programme on Blakeney Point. (£1200)
To the Wiltshire & Swindon Records Centre / WWT to radio tag breeding Curlews to determine habitat use during the breeding season. (£3000)
To the Batumi Raptor Count to scale up their educational programme for Georgian teachers and children to counter shooting of raptors. (£2000)
to Chris Payne to increase the number of infra-red cameras for SKOLKHOLM LIVE, and to include Manx Shearwater nests. (£1150)

Grants awarded in 2018

To the UK Twite monitoring project to continue colour-ringing and trial the use of bioacoustics to monitor Twites in inaccessible locations. (£402)
To Friends of Red Kites, to support Satellite tagging of Red Kites in northeast England. (£2,863)
To Marcel Gil Velasco to study the use of bioacoustics to monitor Barolo Shearwaters on the Canary Islands. (£1,030)
To Sandwich Bay Observatory Trust for the Restharrow Scrape Appeal. (£1000)
To the Aldabra Clean-up Project, supporting students from Queens College, Oxford, to clean accumulated plastic pollution from Aldabra and to put in place a plan and resources to maintain the clean-up process in future. (£1,500)
To the European Breeding Bird Atlas to sponsor the species account for Willow/Red Grouse. (£450)
To Action for Swifts to fit cameras into Common Swift nestboxes and use the output to inform more people about their decline and what can be done to help them. (£2,000)
To Flamborough Bird Observatory towards the construction of a cliff-top sea-watching shelter. (£1,000)
To Hookpod Ltd. to further their work using hookpods to reduce the bycatch of albatrosses and other seabirds during long-line tuna fishing. (£1,000)
To Chris Payne to implement SKOKHOLM LIVE, a project using mini IR cameras to observe the behaviour of nesting Storm-petrels and Puffins on Skokholm. (£1,550)
To Simon Gillings of the BTO to use audio recording to monitor the calls and movements of nocturnal birds. (£1,015)
To A Rocha International to carry out fieldwork in the forests of Eastern Nigeria. (£1,110)
To the Felbeck Trust towards the purchase of tools to improve habitat and access to Sustead Common in Norfolk. (£1,500)
To Liz Humphreys, BTO Scotland, towards her work on the movements of Arctic Skuas during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons. (£354)
To the A. P. Levantis Conservation Foundation towards extension of the Becheve Reserve, Nigeria. (£3,000)

Grants awarded in 2017

To Birds of Arabia, and the production of an app, which would further encourage the study of birds in the area. (£1,000)
To the Hookpod company, to support their work developing and distributing the Hookpod device, to protect birds being caught on fish hooks in longline fishing. (£1,000)
To David Turner, North York Moors, for tagging young Eurasian Curlews in an established volunteer project to monitor movements and survival. (£1,200)
To Batumi Raptor Migration Watch, an established watch site for raptor migration in Georgia, to help fund the travel and training of young Georgians. (£1,000)

Grants awarded in 2016

To the Upper Onny Wildlife Research Group in Shropshire towards their work on Curlews (£1,500)
To the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2) to support surveys in remote areas (£1,000)
To help with Rat eradication at Blakeney Point National Nature Reserve (£500)
To the BTO for satellite tracking of Cuckoos (£1,000)

Grants awarded in 2015

To Birdlife International towards their study of illegal bird killing in Arabia (£1,000)
To the BTO and China Birdwatching Society in support of the satellite tracking of Cuckoos from China (£1,000)
To Birdlife International towards their campaign to save African vultures (£1,000)
To the Spurn Bird Observatory Appeal (£1,000)
To volunteers for work on Woodlarks, in memory PAD Hollom (£1,080)

Grants awarded in 2014

To two volunteers to support their work on Nightjars in Norfolk (£1,260)
To support further work led by RSPB on rat removal from Henderson Island (£1,000)
To support the production of a book Birds of the Middle East in Arabic (£1,000)
Towards a survey of Spoon-billed Sandpipers in the most important wintering site at Martaban Bay in Myanmar (£1,000)
To Birdlife International for work on declining vulture populations (£1,000)

Grants awarded in 2013

To Hong Kong Bird Watching Society to support counts of Spoon-billed Sandpipers and other waders on a newly-discovered stop-over site (£1,000).
To the Hawk & Owl Trust towards management work on Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve in Norfolk (£1,000)
To two volunteers to support their work on Common Sandpipers in northern Scotland (£1,500)
To a programme helping to combat bird killing in the eastern Mediterranean (£500)

Grants awarded in 2012

To the World Land Trust for use in Armenia to support work on a major IBA (£1,000)
To Nature Iraq, towards the publication of Key Biodiversity Areas of Iraq (£1,000).
To Farlington Ringing Group, Hampshire, towards work on Greenshanks (£1,000)
To the New Forest Woodcock Group, towards work on Woodcock movements (£1,000)
To the Isle of May Bird Observatory Appeal (£400)

Grants awarded in 2011

To the BTO in support of the satellite tracking of Cuckoos (£1,500)
Towards the RSPB-led rat elimination project on Henderson Island (£1,000)
Towards the WWT-led Madagascar Pochard project (£1,000)
To A Rocha for work on Roller conservation in France (£1,000)

Our first grant

Regular grant giving could not begin until 2011, but one earlier donation of £5,000 was given in 2009, to A Rocha Kenya for monitoring wintering terns and waders. The grant was given in memory of BB director Terry Smeeton and BB staff member Philippa Leegood, both of whom died suddenly.

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