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Welcome to the Sorby Breck Ringing Group website.
Take a look at our 'blog' for interesting items about the group's activities.
Details of Ringing Demonstrations can be found in the Events
and News sections.
The following organisations support our conservation work
  
Recent work by SBRG members has provided new information
on the winter habitat use of wood warblers, house martins and swifts.
The results make fascinating reading and help us to understand the threats
faced by these declining species in sub-Saharan Africa. The work was lead
by our group member Dr Karl Evans from the University of Sheffield, in
collaboration with other ornithologists and SBRG members. Read the full
paper here
 When
trainees are about to upgrade to their C status the question that most
exercises them, is where can I ring? read
more...
My first full year of monitoring the raptors nesting in the High Peak
and surrounding areas has been spent mostly in the company of the Peak
District Raptor Monitoring Group. 
This report records the 117 raptor and 6 Raven pulli I was
involved with ringing. The observations are my own and are not backed
up by any scientific evidence read
more...
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out the latest from our blog here
Latest news....
More owls
It's here! Our brand new annual ringing report
is available for you to download
here
 The
picture of the week welcomes contributions. Click on the link below to
view the latest picture and previous pictures click
here
I don't think I'm unusual for my age in being slightly scathing of social
networking sites and the 'apps' or applications available for what seems
like an ever-changing array of so-called 'smart' phones. However...read
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Main site - 11th May 2012/ Login - 7th May 2012
Lots of new blog items. April's totals now available.
Also see ringing demo details for Sun 13th May in 'Events' section
open to everyone.
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Come and join in the 50th anniversary celebrations of Derbyshire Wildlife
Trust on June 23rd and 24th. SBRG will be giving a ringing talk and demo
and there is plenty more going on. More details here.
 Mid-June
saw my fifth CES
visit to Williamthorpe Nature Reserve to monitor the breeding status of
the site's passerine birds using this part of NE Derbyshire. The information
gained is used to monitor adult/juvenile rates of the birds present.
This allows the BTO to collate the
data nationally to make  consistently
accurate estimates of breeding and population trends for our resident
and migrant birds read
more...
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