Bird's Eye Walls : Partnership for Sustainability - Progress Report on the Use of Pea Fields by Birds

As part of Birds Eye Wall's Partnership for Sustainability programme the BTO carried out a month by month breeding season survey of pea fields and adjacent crops, for birds on 20, 19 and 5 and 9 farm sites for (1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 respectively) in the east of England.

The fieldwork included an intensive study of Skylarks on five East Anglian farms (using timed point counts).

Elsewhere the spatial distribution of birds on peas was analysed in relation to pesticide versus non-pesticide treated field margins in 2001 and 2002 only.