Written by and photo courtesy of Susie Stockwell, bird team member and author of #itsawildlife blog I’m sure you’ve heard it said about birds in the hand… worth two in the bush! Well, in the case of monitoring birds – the saying…

Written by Emily Wilkinson Photos courtesy of Oscar Paulinski   Before you head out on expedition you know what you are going to be up to in a broad sense – you have your research objectives and/or you know what course you…

Written by and photos courtesy of Susie Stockwell – bird team member and author of #itsawildlife blog Mist-netting for birds can be a little bit like Christmas. You set up the tree, people bring you presents – and it’s exciting because you…

Written by and photos courtesy of Susie Stockwell – bird team member and author of #itsawildlife blog Another survey season has kicked off at Operation Wallacea’s Croatia project for 2022. The project undertakes surveys across a wide range of taxa: from reptiles…

Written by and photos courtesy of Morgan Hughes I’m back in the UK as I write this, after my 2nd season as Lead Bat Scientist for OpWall’s research station in Krka National Park, Croatia. While we’re at camp, the days (and nights) are…

My morning hot shower is followed by coffee and cornflakes to sustain me for the morning’s activity. I stash some fruit for mid-morning snacks in my day bag alongside my camera and binoculars, sunscreen, and woolly hat (the weather is pretty interchangeable…

In 2010 I started my A-Levels and knew I wanted to continue learning after that, but wasn’t sure what to study or which career path to pursue. However, not long after starting at sixth form, I heard of something I couldn’t have…

That afternoon myself and fellow staff Fred and Alberto set off from camp with Joto, the projects Biodiversity Coordinator and Croc team leader, at 3.30pm for a hike where at the end, was a remote aguada where we hoped to find crocs!…

At the beginning of July 2021, I went on a week-long fieldwork course to Knepp Park Estate with Operation Wallacea. Along with a group of other young people my age, I joined in with many wildlife surveys.     On invertebrate surveys…

Whenever we visited the site of La Ensenada in Tela bay, Honduras we always told the students about the legendary manatee that was once spotted there. There was no photo evidence, so none of us believed it. But last summer, all of that changed. …