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Wiltshire Mammal Group Wiltshire Mammal Group Spring 2019 Welcome to the spring 2019 edition of the Wiltshire Mammal Group newsletter where we update you on activities in 2018 as well as some plans for 2019. A huge thank you to all who have supported the group in 2018 and shared their mammal records. Notes from the Chair Ben Williams 2018 has flown by, it only feels like a month ago I was writing this last year. First, I must apologise for a lack of communication generally to our members. This is in part due to my (currently) hectic life (finishing my PhD, moving to a new house, starting a new Stoat, in partial ermine or winter pelage, Salisbury Plain Training Area, January job etc.) and some behind the scenes 2019 © Phil Smith work that is going on. A record of a stoat in its winter coat in Wiltshire is really unusual – or is rarely 2018 Saw the group adopt a new mailing reported – has anyone else encountered one?? list through Google Groups. I hope this is working for everyone and if there is anyone who ongoing brown hare crisis (see below). Indeed, would like to be added do let us know - the more the work the WMG has done behind the scenes the merrier! has been praised nationally. Hopefully we will see some of the national bodies taking a lead on this I would like to thank all those who have shortly. contributed to WMG over the past year, ranging from those submitting data to attending (or I would like to take this opportunity to remind running) a workshop. Special thanks must go to people that we have a Facebook group and a Gareth for all hi hard work behind the scenes website. Please do check it out if you have not already done so and post to them both or send You may remember that 2017 saw the us things you would like to see on the website. publication of the Wiltshire Mammal Atlas 2nd We can only be as active as our membership! Edition. This was a fantastic achievement and is Our Facebook Group continues to grow with new built on the data that you collect. Please members and many interesting posts - please use continue to send in all of your records they are this to share photos and stories about mammals, vitally important to all of the work we do - though ask questions and post relevant news articles. their value may not be immediately apparent. The more the group is used the more of a If ever there was a prominent reminder to how community we will become. important our recording work can be in the 'real As a busy group of volunteers, we are always on world' then you need look no further than the the lookout for more help. Do you have some spare time and feel able to contribute? Why not consider joining the WMG committee - there are Disease in Brown Hares; a couple of openings for interested people. We your help needed are particularly keen to hear from people who would be willing to act as events coordinator, a In October 2018 Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Norfolk new role to organise events, talks and walks. This Wildlife Trust initiated a partnership project with is a very exciting opportunity and would be the University of East Anglia to study a series of central to the group. If you feel unable to mysterious hare deaths in the East Anglia region. commit to this role but feel able to organise one In promoting this work on TV, radio and the press, event e.g. talk or training etc. then we would still UEA have received reports of large numbers of love to hear from you! hare deaths from across the UK (including south- west England, Wales and Scotland). Post We are in the final stages of organising a Skulls mortems indicate that several viruses are and Bones workshop with the legendary Ric involved including hares dying with symptoms Maurice - watch this space and sign up quickly, characteristic of myxomatosis in rabbits. The there will only be limited space! reports indicate that these infections are Let's get outside, go for a walk, record some spreading throughout the national brown hare mammals, submit the data and maybe even population, and that spread is rapid. make some friends along the way! My challenge to everyone: see if you can submit more mammal records this year than you did last year. Why not set yourself the target of recording as many different mammal species as you can in Wiltshire this year? Let's make this the year that we, as a group, get outside with some semi-organised mammal tracks and signs walks. I plan on 'leading' a few in the coming months Brown hares © Philip Male which I will publicise on Wiltshire Mammal Group is therefore asking Facebook (and by email if I remember). If you anyone seeing a freshly dead hare to record its are going for a walk, don't be lonely, invite other location and grid reference, date and to WMG members along and meet some new photograph the entire animal – especially around people and renew old friendships. the head and bottom – and send the information Lastly, I'm sure you would like to join me in to Dr Diana Bell at the University of East Anglia. Dr thanking Paul Wexler for his support on the Bell has recently been studying the impacts of committee over the last few years. Although he diseases on rabbit populations, including has now decided to step down, hopefully we'll myxomatosis and strains of see him at some events in the future and wish him haemorrhagic disease. well. Dr Bell said: “The death of any animal is obviously distressing but we’re asking people to try and New website! photograph these hares to help us understand Check out the NEW Wiltshire Mammal Portal: what is happening. Getting good images and https://wiltshiremammals.wordpress.com and the the actual bodies of these hares, along with their WMG Facebook group (search for us on exact location, is crucial for us to rule out or Facebook). identify possible diseases. Any dead animals should be double-bagged using gloves and where possible put into a freezer prior to collection.” Wiltshire is an important stronghold for brown location; Please don’t deliver carcases before hares in the UK; the recently-published Mammals discussion of cases. in Wiltshire (Second Edition) demonstrates that Main site; APHA Starcross VI Centre, Starcross, they are widely-spread in the county and indeed Staplake Mount, Starcross, Exeter, Devon, EX6 are more frequently recorded than rabbits. In 8PE fact, rabbits have declined rapidly in recent years in response to different strains of rabbit Bristol Vet School’s Post Mortem Room, at haemorrhagic disease. Langford House, Langford, Nr Bristol, Somerset, BS40 5DU There is also no closed season for hares, which means that they can be shot legally at any time Wiltshire Mammal Group is not able to collect or of the year – including during breeding season. store carcasses or arrange for their delivery. Illegal hare coursing is also still prevalent in Please be aware; this is incredibly serious for the Wiltshire (see Wiltshire Rural Crime Team UK’s brown hare populations (it’s not yet known Facebook page, 17th December 2018). what the impact may be upon mountain hare Hares can be distinguished from rabbits in a populations), and it is likely to result in a massive number of ways. Hares are larger than rabbits, reduction in hare numbers. In a county such as with longer hind legs and black-tipped ears that Wiltshire, this will be especially noticeable where are as least as long as their heads. hares are normally so frequently seen. Have you seen a sick or dead hare? In parts of East Anglia, the impact upon hare populations is expected to be so significant that Since more than one virus is involved, observers some shooting estates have ceased any shooting may encounter dead or dying hares exhibiting a of hares (for either sport, pest control or eating) in range of symptoms, including the bulging eyes order to support populations as much as possible. and bleeding characteristic of Myxomatosis to a wide range of other symptoms seen in the This information has been published upon the haemorrhagic disease (including looking Wiltshire Mammal Portal, facilitating sharing it apparently perfectly healthy to bleeding from more widely including through social media. the eyes and orifices, and lethargy). Updates to this information will be provided here, so please check back from time to time. Please note the precise location & grid reference (https://wiltshiremammals.wordpress.com/2018/1 (using a map or this website), and date. 2/18/urgent-disease-in-brown-hares-your-help- The team are keen to receive carcasses of the needed/) hare for post-mortem and analyses to confirm More information which viral infection is involved. Using gloves where-ever possible, double-bag carcasses and Dr Diana Bell at the University of East Anglia, tag with the date and location and then freeze [email protected] or leave in a cold place. Alex Barlow Veterinary Investigation Officer, And then: APHA Wildlife Group, [email protected] Please send your report, with a photograph of the Gareth Harris, Wiltshire Mammal Group, hare (including its head and bottom) to Dr Diana [email protected] Bell at the University of East Anglia by emailing [email protected]. Inform Dr Bell immediately and arrangements will be made for collection of Mammals in Wiltshire (2nd carcases.
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