Breeding Waders of Wet Meadows surveys in England and Wales, 1982 and 2002

• Main Author: Uknbn
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: British Trust for Ornithology 2017
• Subjects: Furness; Hector; Actitis hypoleucos; Common Sandpiper; Numenius arquata; Philomachus pugnax; Ringed Plover; Vanellus vanellus; black-tailed godwit; Limosa limosa; Ruff
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/wyfn5p; http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7ce47268-2446-40ef-bafd-d7073a187441

Wet lowland grassland as a habitat has been disappearing quite fast over the last few decades as more and more has been drained or rendered less suitable for breeding birds. In the 1970s, an estimated 8000ha of the habitat was drained each year. The loss of wet lowland grassland and reduction in qua...