{"id":13746,"date":"2018-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2018\/05\/25\/national-citizen-bird-project\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:30:38","slug":"national-citizen-bird-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/national-citizen-bird-project\/","title":{"rendered":"National Citizen Bird Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u200bThe boys are enjoying the national\u00a0Citizen Bird\u00a0project\u200b with their own\u00a0nest boxes in the Prep School’s grounds. The boxes are supplied by David Kelly, father of William, who is involved with the project. Electronic equipment has been added to the boxes which enable us to see videos inside and weighing scales which record activity in the boxes. Birds coming and going or growing chicks will affect the weight.<\/p>\n
Very excitingly, the box in the school\u00a0garden has a nest and eggs of a Great Tit which have now hatched and are growing rapidly, you can see them being fed and how they have changed. They\u00a0are nearly ready to fledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
25 May 2018 \u200bThe boys are enjoying the national\u00a0Citizen Bird\u00a0project\u200b with their own\u00a0nest boxes in the Prep School’s grounds. The boxes are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-categories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n