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Bakewell Bird Study Group’75 years of Oxford University’s Great Tit Study at Wytham Woods’

Dr Ella Cole, 10th February at Friends Meeting House 7.30pm




Wytham Wood was gifted to the University in 1942. On 27th April 1947 the first great tit egg in Oxford University’s Wytham Woods Study was counted. The hugely influential Wytham Great Tit Study is the longest continuous study of an individually marked animal population in the world. It plays a key role in scientists’ understanding of how populations change in response to the environment – particularly how they are coping with changing climates. More than 70 PhD theses have been completed on this project and over 350 scientific papers published. This will be a joint meeting with Derbyshire Ornithological Society.

Bakewell Bird Study Group’s presentations are always at the Friends Meeting House at the end of Chapel Row off Matlock Street (A6) in Bakewell, to the left of the Methodist church. Visitors are welcome £4 on the door or you can join the group for just £7.50 for the remainder of the season, up to June, for which you will get three talks and 5 field trips which restart in April. Meetings are listed in the Peak Advertiser and at Bakewell Tourist Information Office or visit the BBSG web site at www.bakewell birdstudygroup.org.uk or call 07768 928432.

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