10dec11
Letter from Henry Adams to SLDC Planning in response to LAND AT
OXENHOLME ROAD,
KENDAL,
including
the “Strawberry Field” – a lapwing
breeding site, re DEVELOPMENT:EXTENSION
TO TIME CONDITION ON PLANNING PERMISSION SL/2008/1220 (engineering ops
re Rugby
Club’s plans),REF. NUMBER:
SL/2011/0896
http://www.dragonfly1.plus.com/LetterHenryAdamsToSLDCreStrawberryFieldandLapwings2011.pdf
BBSreport2011 - The Breeding
Bird Survey 2011 - The
population trends of the UK’s breeding birds http://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u16/downloads/reports/bbsreport11.pdf ‘The
Breeding Bird Survey is run by the
British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and is jointly funded by the BTO,
the Joint
Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) (on behalf of the statutory nature
conservation agencies: Council for Nature Conservation and the
Countryside, the
Countryside Council for Wales, Natural England and Scottish Natural
Heritage),
and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)’ ‘Breeding waders
showed marked declines
between 2010 and 2011, and four waders reached their lowest level since
the
start of the survey: Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Snipe and Curlew.’
*** Britain's birds facing
extinction as climate change leaves them with nowhere to go
Environment The Observer As
temperatures rise and European breeds arrive,
native species such as the lapwing
and Scottish crossbill are being forced out.
Soon, say the RSPB and Durham University, many of our rare birds will
disappear
Robin McKie,
science editor The Observer,http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/01/british-birds-extinction-climate-change
“...
"We
are already seeing significant changes to British birdlife and these
are only
going to accelerate," said Dr Steve Willis of Durham University.... in the journal Public Library of
Science, researchers will reveal they have found detailed evidence to
show a
significantwildlifetransformation
is under way.
The
report, by Durham University and the Royal Society for the Protection
of Birds (RSPB),
outlines changes that have already occurred in the past two decades in
response
to the 0.6C rise that has affected the nation.
Two
particular birds provide telling evidence of the future facing the
British
countryside and its inhabitants: the lapwing and the cirl bunting, a
relative
of the yellowhammer. The cirl bunting ...
By
contrast, the lapwing - one of the
most characteristic British farmland birds of the 19th and 20th
centuries - has
suffered devastating drops in population because of changes in
agriculture, in
particular the introduction of winter-sowing of crops. Now global
warming is
adding to these effects, with the result that the lapwing has already
suffered
a 47% reduction in numbers and seems destined to earn itself the status
of anendangered
speciesin
Britain.
...”
Behavioural ecology of the lapwing
Vanellus vanellus L. In upper Teesdale - Parish,
David M.B.(1996)Behavioural
ecology of the lapwing Vanellus vanellus L. In upper Teesdale.Doctoral
thesis, Durham University. Durham e-Theses http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5382/
The Breeding Ecology of the Lapwing
at Seal Sands, Teesside with reference to Food, the
Environment and three Neighbouring Species. Burton,
N.H.K(1992)The Breeding
Ecology of the Lapwing at Seal Sands, Teesside:: with reference to
Food, the
Environment and three Neighbouring Species.Masters
thesis, Durham University. - Durham e-Theses http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6628/
Age at first breeding, philopatry
and breeding site-fidelity in the Lapwing Vanellus vanellus - THOMPSON
- 2008 - Ibis - Wiley Online LibraryPATRICK
S. THOMPSON1, DAVID BAINES1,2, JOHN
C. COULSON1, GEOFF LONGRIGG3Article
first published online: 3 APR 2008http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1994.tb01124.x/abstract "Breeding
LapwingsVanellus
vanelluswere
studied in the Eden Valley
(Cumbria) and in Teesdale (County Durham) between 1990 and 1992. A
total of 300
adult Lapwings and 801 near-fledged young were uniquely colour-ringed.
Breeding
adults were highly site-faithful, almost always nesting in the same or
an
adjacent field in successive years. Second-year birds were less
site-faithful,
with more birds nesting in adjacent and other fields and fewer in the
same
field in successive years. ..."
BTO: 'Lapwings in Plots' http://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u31/downloads/details/lapwingsinplots.pdf "Current
Staff Contact: Su Gough su.gough@bto.orgPublicationsThe main report of the project is: Chamberlain, D., Gough, S.,
Anderson,
G., Macdonald, M., Grice, P. & Vickery, J. 2009. Bird use of
cultivated
fallow 'Lapwing plots' within English agrienvironment schemes. Bird
Study 56:
289-297. The project was noticed in BTO News numbers 269 and 278."
