Hawk Conservancy Trust field trip

Organiser: Debbie Carter

Following Tom Morath's talk in April about the Hawk Conservancy Trust's history, we visited the trust near Andover. The Trust does exciting work with species worldwide but also has a number of research and conservation projects focused on kestrels and tawny owls - whose populations are now 'of concern' -  and barn owls and the impact of declining prey populations such as rabbits, almost wiped out by mixomatosis. 

​More encouragingly, banning organochlorine pesticides seems to be helping recovery.