Willow Tit survey results published

The results from a national Willow Tit Poecile montanus survey have just been published (https://bit.ly/3vpZQae). The species is Britain’s fastest declining resident species, with the population falling by 86% nationally between 1995 and 2020. Declines have been so severe in parts of England that Willow Tits are now absent from many counties in the south and east.

The survey found just shy of 5,700 breeding pairs of Willow Tits in Britain, of which 76% were in England, 21% in Wales and 3% in Scotland. Co. Durham, Derbyshire and North Yorkshire were found to have the highest populations in England, while most of the Willow Tits found in Wales were in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Breconshire and Montgomeryshire. Almost all of Scotland’s Willow Tits were in Dumfries & Galloway.