Marden Wildlife News

Our joint project with Kent Wildlife Trust, studying the movement of turtle doves between Marden farms, got off to a successful start. Licenced ringers trapped and ringed five doves and added colour rings so individual birds could be identified from thousands of...

WELL DONE - to everyone! At last night's Radio Kent Make a Difference Awards, Ray Morris was named with Marden Wildlife as winner of the Environmental category of these awards. We weren't aware until last night just how many nominations for the awards the BBC had...

We are pleased to announce that Marden Wildlife Group has won the NBN Group Award for 2021, in recognition of all of our efforts to record what wildlife we have in Marden. Below is the quote from the NBN website. Marden Wildlife, (from Kent), is the winner of the NBN...

Farmers and Villagers Conserving Nature by Ray Morris

For those of you disappointed about the Ringing Demonstration being Postponed until Sunday October 10th 2021  Here’s one we did earlier. This young song thrush has two ticks feeding on it - they feed on the host’s blood and eventually drop off when they are full up....

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has just released its ringing data for 2020 so we have been able to compare the numbers for Marden with the rest of the British Isles. (It’s important to note the figures for Marden also reflect the degree of effort put in by...