Are you batty about bats and ready to explore their nocturnal world as well as helping us to better understand the campus populations? Working with the West Yorkshire Bat Group, we are planning a monthly campus walkover survey. The walk will be facilitated by our leaders, so no prior experience is needed. Together, we hope...
Come along to one of our free biodiversity monitoring sessions to take a walk around campus, observe wildlife and record findings into a database. You don't need to have any experience, just a desire to learn more! Campus biodiversity recording started as a living lab project to map campus pollinators, but has now expanded to include...
Take part in campus pollinator monitoring! We will be performing Flower Insect Timed (FIT) counts in which we will identify a floral region to monitor using a quadrat and count the abundance of pollinators landing in that quadrat over a set time. These FIT surveys are part of a living lab project and so we...
Come along to one of our free biodiversity monitoring sessions to take a walk around campus, observe wildlife and record findings into a database. You don't need to have any experience, just a desire to learn more! Campus biodiversity recording started as a living lab project to map campus pollinators, but has now expanded to include...
Join us for a campus “Wildlife Wander” - a slow-paced hour discovering wildlife around the University campus. Each month we’ll visit different areas depending on where we think there are interesting things to see. Some of us are birdwatchers, some of us are pretty good at bees and butterflies or learning flower identification. We’re all...
As part of a Living Lab project led by student Seb Stroud, areas across campus have been dedicated as mini meadows. Seb's innovative concept of planting mini wildflower meadows across campus, with the goal of mitigating carbon emissions and promoting biodiversity, secured the top spot in the Queens Jubilee Challenge award. Join us to plant wildflowers...
Come along to one of our free biodiversity monitoring sessions to take a walk around campus, observe wildlife and record findings into a database. You don't need to have any experience, just a desire to learn more! Campus biodiversity recording started as a living lab project to map campus pollinators, but has now expanded to include...
Please note this event has been rescheduled from 22 May to 29 May due to weather conditions. Are you batty about bats and ready to explore their nocturnal world as well as helping us to better understand the campus populations? Working with the West Yorkshire Bat Group, we are planning a monthly campus walkover survey....
Peregrine falcons are the fastest animals recorded on earth, capable of reaching speeds of over 200mph. But did you know that peregrine falcons have been nesting intermittently on the Parkinson Tower since 2018? This year they have laid four eggs, which started hatching on May Day (1st May)! Join us to find out more about these...
Join us for a campus “Wildlife Wander” - a slow-paced hour discovering wildlife around the University campus. Each month we’ll visit different areas depending on where we think there are interesting things to see. Some of us are birdwatchers, some of us are pretty good at bees and butterflies or learning flower identification. We’re all...