Shropshire Rookeries

The extensive fieldwork for the Shropshire Rookeries Survey 2025 (RO25) checked most of the 1,100 or so rookeries recorded in the county – of which around 500 are known to be alive still.

Following last year’s Site reporting in 2025, this Supplemental reporting covers unreported Sites.

We also identified at least 105 new sites which had not been recorded before – a major success.

However we still have around 90 sites which need visiting and recording during April, between Saturday 11 and Sunday 19. We are appealing for your help to complete the suite of records for the four surveys which were begun in 1975, half a century ago.

We need volunteers, one per site to carry out a single visit in April and report back. You may volunteer in advance for any particular site through the website or ask for one or more to be allocated to you. We have already marked with [Blue Pins] a number sites, mostly dangerous or problematic sites. This leaves around 70 to choose from.

If you tell us your Post Code we can allocate sites conveniently close-by to you:

• When a Site has an Allocated Volunteer it will be marked with a Blue Pin
• When the site is Nest-Counted it will have a Green Pin.
• If a site inactive it will be marked with a Black Pin (Dead).

Continue to the Supplemental Reporter Form and Maps

Further details please click here