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From YouTube: Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group
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Chris from Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group explains a little more about the group and its work towards the study and conservation of the wildlife of the harbour. For Libraries Week 2020. Join in the #LibrariesWeek conversation and find out more at www.librariesweek.org.uk @librariesweek #LibrariesWeek
A
Hello
there,
my
name
is
chris
chaplio
and
I've
been
asked
to
talk
to
you
today
about
job
a
little
bit
about
shop.
You
may
have
heard
of
us.
We
now
have
we're
pretty
well
known
in
the
christchurch
and
surrounding
area,
and
child
obviously
stands
for
as
you'll
see
here.
Christchurch
harbour
all
the
logical
group.
It's
got
a
website.
A
Shop.Org.Uk
we've
been
around
about
60
years
now,
since
the
late
19th
mid
1950s,
when
there
was
a
first
ornithological
survey
of
christchurch
harbour,
but
we've
grown
into
something
very
different.
From
that
I
mean
that's
still
important,
understanding
and
recording
the
wildlife
of
christchurch
harbour,
but
we
are
now
about
conservation.
Generally,
we
have
grown
hugely
as
an
organization.
We've
got
about
500
members.
A
We
just
reached
that
landmark
last
about
a
week
and
a
half
ago
over
500
members,
which
obviously
gives
us
really
good
voice
in
conservation
and
trying
to
work
with
partners
to
protect
and
help
and
support
christchurch
harbour
that
stan
pitt
hangers
from
sands
fit
the
surrounding
area
and
as
far
as
the
avon
valley.
So
a
little
bit
about
that
me.
I've
lived
round
here
I
lived
close
by
for
a
number
of
years.
A
A
That's
last
year's,
and
that's
the
years
before
2018
has
colored
photographs
and
lists
all
of
the
stuff
we
have
in
there
or
all
of
the
records
of
wildlife
and
birds
within
crossfit
harbour
during
that
year,
as
well
as
some
interesting
general
articles
and
membership
of
chog
is
seven
pounds
a
year,
which
is
pretty
good.
Some
and
you're
entitled
to
go
on
talks
and
walks
as
well.
Family
membership
is
10
pounds.
Excuse
me,
family
membership
is
13
pounds.
Joint
membership
is
10
pounds
and
through
students,
just
five
pounds.
A
So
enough
about
me
kind
of
doing
my
my
mini
sales
pitch
there,
but
a
bit
about
job.
Well,
we
get
involved
in
conservation
things
like
planning
applications.
We're
asked
to
sort
of
get
involved
and
give
our
thoughts
from
a
conservation
point
of
view.
So
things
spring
to
mind
such
as
recent
offshore
wind
farm
proposed
developments,
planning
and
road
shot
hill
things
like
this
housing
development.
A
We
work
with
christian
harbour
and
marine
society.
We
also
we're
involved
in
many
things
like
active
scientific
conservation
projects.
So
recently
you
may
have
seen
there's
been
some
invasive
red
weed,
which
has
been
in
hot
spells,
growing,
hugely
in
crutches
harbor.
Of
course,
the
problem,
because
a
lot
of
small
wading
birds
can't
feed
as
well
as
it
gets
a
bit
smelly
and
it's
a
bit
unpleasant.
So
we've
been
working
with
people
like
natural
england
and
other
scientific
and
government
bodies
to
look
at
what.
A
That
is
why
it
happens
and
what
we
can
do
about
it
to
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
chog,
then
in
terms
of
what
you
might
be
interested
in.
If
you
want
to
join
us
or
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
more,
we
are
a
very
you.
Don't
have
to
be
an
expert
we're
a
very
informal
organization,
the
particular
things
we
do.
We've
run
a
program
of
indoor
meetings
and
obviously,
at
the
moment
those
are
suspended
because
of
covet,
but
we
are
still
running
virtual
ones,
we're
under
one
zoom.
A
A
You
get
a
cup
of
tea
and
we
have
talks
from
local
experts,
people
who've
traveled
abroad,
all
over
the
world,
but
also
things
with
a
really
good
local
flavor
about
you
know
raptors
in
the
new
forest
or
particular
conservation
projects,
or
we
have
people
from
the
rspb
talking
about
new
reserves
and
how
they're
managing
those
so
all
sorts
of
things,
and
they
they
really
have
been.
We've
been
very
impressed
with
how
successful
they've
been,
and
we
also
run
outdoor
meetings
where
you
can
go
along
and
tend
to
attend
a
walk.
A
We
run
those
obviously
at
sandpit
at
hangersbury
a
few
times
a
year,
but
as
well
as
that,
we
go
further
afield.
We
go
out
into
the
new
forest
in
the
spring.
We
go
as
far
as
portland
bill
pool
harbour
and
we
have
a
full
program
of
those
on
our
website
available
for
members
and
for
non-members.
If
you
wish
to
sort
of
pay
a
small
donation
as
well,
and
as
I
I
really
stress
you-
don't
have
to
be
an
expert,
the
people
who
are
there
are
knowledgeable
and
there
to
help
you
they're
all
volunteers.
A
People
like
myself,
who
go
along
and
will
help
you,
and
so
you
could
know
as
much
or
as
little
as
you
like,
and
it's
just
a
sort
of
friendly
and
formal
way
to
get
out
so
a
little
bit
about
the
wildlife
that's
around
at
the
moment
really.
Well,
I
always
think
christchurch
harbour
is
a
little
bit
of
a
it's
like
an
airport
for
wildlife
really
for
birds,
in
particular
an
airport
hub.
A
If
you
see
what
I
mean,
because
things
are
always
coming
and
going
it's
not
geographically
a
huge
area,
it's
very
busy
there's
a
lot
of
pressure
on
it
from
other
usage,
water
usage,
recreational
usage-
and
you
know,
understandably,
so
everybody
wants
to
get
out
there
and
enjoy
it.
But
despite
all
that,
we
get
a
lot
of
wildlife.
A
Finches
move
in
the
autumn
and
then
in
the
winter
we
tend
to
get
an
established
population
of
ducks
geese
wading,
birds
that
spend
the
winter
with
us,
because
it's
warmer
than
where
they
come
from
places
like
iceland
or
the
in
the
arctic,
where
they
breed
and
there's
a
spring
you'll
get
birds
coming
through
again
on
their
way
north
arriving
sort
of
april
time.
It's
good
for
passage.
Then
we've
got
some
really
interesting
breeding
birds.
I've
got!
I
don't
know
if
you
can
see
this
here,
but
we've
got
things
like
we've
got.
A
A
Recently,
we've
had
a
little
local
celebrity,
a
bull
grey
seal
who
you
may
have
seen
it
was
in
the
echo
actually
big
animal
who
spent
about
a
week
ten
days,
hauling
himself
onto
the
beach
at
hangersfree
created
a
great
deal
of
public
interest
and
he
would
spend
a
few
hours
there
resting
and
off.
He
went
again,
I
don't
think
he's
been
seen
for
a
week
or
so
now,
but
we'll
occasionally
get
cetaceans.
A
That's
whales,
dolphins,
particularly
off
the
head,
there's
lizards,
there's,
butterflies,
there's
a
good
variety
of
wildlife
for
a
small
area,
so
yeah
there's
lots
of
wildlife
around
it's
a
good
time
of
year
to
get
out
there
and
have
a
look.
What
more
can
I
say?
Really?
We
would
like
you
to
to
see
more
of
you
at
chalk
and
if
you
want
to
find
out
more
check
out
our
website,
I've
also
been
asked
to
recommend
a
couple
of
books
and
I'm
going
to
do
that
now.
A
A
I
should
add
this
is
the
collins
bird
guide
there's
been
several
editions
of
this,
but
the
pictures
it
covers
every
species
in
britain
and
europe
and
the
pictures
are
phenomenal
quality
so
and
the
descriptions
as
well
and
if
that's
daunting
and
there's
a
lot
of
species
in
it,
don't
worry.
There
are
plenty
of
kind
of
ones
that
cover
slightly
fewer
species,
but
this
is
a
great
book,
so
that's
published
by
collins.
I
don't
think
it's
too
much
more.
I
can
say
to
you
about
that.
A
If
you
like
photographs,
this
is
a
good
book
only
published
a
little
over
a
year
ago
by
wild
guides
with
the
rspb.
It's
called
britain's
birds,
an
identification
guide
to
the
birds
of
britain
and
ireland
by
hume
still
swash,
harrop
and
tippling,
and
this
has
got
some
fantastic
photographs
of
all
the
birds,
including
rare
birds,
that
turn
up
here
and
more
common
verbs
with
great
little
descriptions
and
maps,
and
it's
yeah
that's
a
great
book
as
well.
A
If
you
want
something,
that's
more
like
a
reference
book,
this
is
it's
been
around
a
few
years
now,
written
by
a
guy
called
george
green
and
published
by
helm,
the
birds
of
dorset,
which
is
a
reference
book
that
lists
up
until
the
sort
of
early
2000s,
all
the
birds
that
occurred
and
there's
changing
status.
Some
birds
become
much
more
common
things
like
kites
and
little
egrets,
particularly
which
were
almost
unheard
of
sort
of
25
30
years
ago,
but
other
species
sadly
have
declined
and
under
a
lot
of
pressure.
A
But
the
birds
of
dorset
by
george
green
is
a
great
reference
book,
and
you
know
I
mentioned
it
before:
it's
not
a
reference
book,
but
the
birds
of
christchurch
harbour.
If
you
do
join
shop,
you
get
a
copy
of
that
or
it's
available
at
a
few
outlets,
and
that's
got
information
in
so
I
think
that's
I
was
asked
for
10
minutes.
That's
pretty
much
exactly
what
I've
done.