Brittany Maxted

@brittanymaxted.bsky.social

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Species Recovery Coordinator @harbourbirds.bsky.social & PhD researcher at @bournemouthuni.bsky.social studying Osprey population dynamics

A Birds of Poole Harbour Osprey Cruise full of members of the public out on the water in Poole Harbour with an Osprey hovering in the sky in the foreground.
A photograph of four Osprey chicks in a nest, ranging from a few days to two weeks old, with both parents each feeding fish to two chicks whilst a third spare fish lies in the centre of the nest.
A photograph of two-year-old female Osprey CJ7 attempting to land on a wooden perch on a saltmarsh alongside several juvenile Ospreys a few days after their release in 2017.
A map of England and Wales showing the long-range dispersal of translocated and wild female Osprey from Poole Harbour to Wales and Rutland, short-range dispersal of males and immigration of two females from Rutland.
A group of young Opsreys (large brown and white birds of prey) feeding on provided trout on the mesh roofs of two sets of translocation release pens.
A map showing Europe with orange covering North-eastern regions and a few small areas elsewhere, indicating the much reduced range of Ospreys due to persecution.
A list of acknowledgement to the organisations and individuals who have helped with this work including: Natural England, National Trust, RSPB, Dorset Bird Club, Paradise Park, Durrell, Wildwood, and Kent Wildlife Trust.
A photo of a grassy coastal slope with strip lynchets on the Purbeck coast where released Chough will hopefully be seen in the future.
A map showing a modelled expansion of the Cornish Chough population towards Dorset over more than 40 years demonstrating the slow nature of the process.
A graph showing an exponential increase in the Cornish Chough population from 1 pair and their chicks in 2002, to 25 pairs and more than 60 chicks in 2022.
A map showing 10,703 hectares of potential Chough foraging habitat in South Purbeck and Portland, including 2,550 hectares of optimal foraging habitat (where the sward height is below 5 centimetres) mostly concentrated close to the Purbeck coast.