Birds – Lark Rise Farm

Highlight species
Skylark	Grey partridge	Yellowhammer
UK conservation status: Red	UK conservation status: Red	UK conservation status: Red
Other notable species
Fieldfare	Corn bunting	Reed bunting
UK conservation status: Red	UK conservation status: Red	UK conservation status: Amber
Common Kestrel	Redwing	Whitethroat
UK conservation status: Amber	UK conservation status: Amber	UK conservation status: Green
Barn owl	Green woodpecker
UK conservation status: Green	UK conservation status: Green
Exceptional records
Great grey shrike	Long-eared owl
UK conservation status: Not assessed	UK conservation status: Green

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Going for gold

Lark Rise Farm was pleased to provide the location for a camp run by the Cambridgeshire Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Open Awards Centre. Twenty-five people aged from 17 to 24 travelled from all over the country to participate as part of their (DofE) Gold Award, learning survival skills and getting stuck in with conservation tasks.
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Bere Marsh Farm

Mixed farmland, Dorset
Robin Page

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David Mills MBE

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Regenerative Farming & CRT

Since our inception we have been working tirelessly to achieve our vision of a living, working countryside, and that is not changing, but in a world that’s in its sixth mass extinction we must evolve to fight this threat.

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