DEVON MAMMAL GROUP
  • Home
    • Small Grants Scheme
    • Newsletter
    • Useful Links
    • Report a Sighting
  • About
    • Contact
    • Meet the Team
    • Devon Mammals
    • Blog
  • join
    • Hire Equipment
  • Events
  • Harvest Mouse Project
    • Harvest mouse blog
    • Reports
  • Home
    • Small Grants Scheme
    • Newsletter
    • Useful Links
    • Report a Sighting
  • About
    • Contact
    • Meet the Team
    • Devon Mammals
    • Blog
  • join
    • Hire Equipment
  • Events
  • Harvest Mouse Project
    • Harvest mouse blog
    • Reports

events

Pips and Pints

23/4/2023

0 Comments

 
Picture
Tuesday, 2nd May 2023 at 8:30pm
Free Event

Beginning at Catacombs Park, Bartholomew St entrance, St David's, Exeter. A guided walk looking and listening for bats around the cemetery and beyond. Will we find some lucky horseshoes?
Suitable for families and those starting out at bat detecting. Some bat detectors will be available but please bring your own if have one. Approx. 2 hours, followed by optional pub stop. Suitable footwear advised, and please bring a torch. Donations welcomed.
Joint event with Devon Bat Group and Devon Wildlife Trust Exeter Local Group.
With thanks to Exeter City Council.

0 Comments

Summer Events - We Need YOU!

22/3/2023

0 Comments

 

Volunteer Opportunities
Enjoy the outdoors and engaging with others? DMG will be attending the following events this year with a stall or to run small mammal trapping. We are after volunteers from the group to help us with these activities.

Picture
Yarner Woods Bioblitz, Sunday 14th May 2023
https://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/enjoy-dartmoor/events/events-list/npa-events/lookwild-at-yarner-wood

Rowden Wildlife Project Open Day , Sunday 16th July 2023

Meldon Wildlife Festival, Tuesday 22nd August 2023

https://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/enjoy-dartmoor/events/events-list/npa-events/meldon-wildlife-festival

If you are interested we would love to hear from you! Please email Charly at charlymead91@gmail.com

If you can't volunteer at an event, please come along anyway and remember to say hi to us!

0 Comments

Christmas Quiz - Wednesday, 7th December 2022 at 7:30pm

5/12/2022

0 Comments

 
Click here Do you know your Trumpeter Rat from your Pyranean Desman?  What's the commonest mammal in the UK? Can rats (or lions) really dance? Join us for our Christmas Mammal Quiz at the White Hart Hotel in Exeter.

Bring some friends to make a team, or join a team when you arrive.

 
Wednesday, 7th December 2022 at 7:30pm
The White Hart Hotel, 66 South Street, Exeter, EX1 1EE

Members: Free   Non Members: £2.50

Please book your space through Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dmg-quiz-night-tickets-467907282277


The White Hart serves food, so some of us will probably eat in the pub beforehand.  Here's a link to their menu if you want to join us https://www.whitehartpubexeter.co.uk/menus/to edit.
0 Comments

An Evening of Dormice - Tuesday, 29th November 2022 at 7:30pm, The Kenn Centre

28/10/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
We welcome Ellie Scopes, Matt Parkins and Charlotte Armitage to join us at one of our DMG evenings to give us an overview of their fantastic work on Dormice.
​
Ellie Scopes - With the help of volunteers from Cornwall and Devon Mammal Groups, I have spent the summer surveying for dormice using footprint tunnels. My aim was to investigate how dormice are using hedges and scrub areas, which are understudied habitats. In this talk, I will discuss this fieldwork and data gathering process, and touch on the preliminary results, such as where I found dormice.


Matt Parkins - Working as a woodland conservationist on a number of Woodland Trust sites around Dartmoor I have various dormouse monitoring projects running to inform us about optimum ways to improve habitats. Working with researchers from the University of Exeter provides us with a more detailed insight into the behaviour of the species in the area. In turn, this can help us to further improve those habitats as we know more about connectivity across the landscape and essential food sources that benefit dormice

Charlotte Armitage - My work focuses on dormouse ecology in fragmented, upland and marginal landscapes at the edges of their range. More specifically I have been investigating how dormice utilise conifer habitat how best to manage them in the face of climate change, to ensure their conservation at local, regional and national levels. My main study site is Clocaenog Forest in northeast Wales, but I have also been working in Fingle Woods and Okehampton as part of my research.
 
Tuesday, 29th November 2022 at 7:30pm
The Kenn Centre, 3 Exeter Rd, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7TW

The talks will also be run online via Zoom, so there are tickets available for The Kenn Centre and for Zoom.

Members: £2.50   Non Members: £4.00

Please book your space through Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-of-dormice-tickets-452087414627

0 Comments

Pips and Pints - Tuesday 13th September 2022, start 7:30pm

16/8/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Beginning at Catacombs Park, Bartholomew St entrance, St David's, Exeter. A guided walk looking and listening for bats around the cemetery and beyond. Will we find some lucky horseshoes?
Suitable for families and those starting out at bat detecting. Some bat detectors will be available but please bring your own if have one. Approx. 2 hours, followed by optional pub stop. Suitable footwear advised, and please bring a torch. Donations welcomed.
Joint event with Devon Bat Group and Devon Wildlife Trust Exeter Local Group.
With thanks to Exeter City Council.
0 Comments

From Zoo to You: Pine Martens and Red Squirrels in North Wales by Craig Shuttleworth 6th September, 7:30pm

16/8/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Magical Mammals Project is a partnership between Red Squirrels Trust Wales, Clocaenog Red Squirrels Trust and Natural Resources Wales. It is mapping existing red squirrel and pine marten habitat in key areas of North Wales and boosting populations by releasing animals that have been born in Zoos as part of ongoing captive-breeding programmes. In 2020, four pine martens were released near the city of Bangor to boost the regional population
 
Tuesday, 6th September 2022 at 7:30pm
Online via Zoom

Members: £2.50   Non Members: £4.00

Please book your space through Eventbrite

BOOK HERE
0 Comments

NEW DATE!! A talk by Stephen Powles: "The Cave Elephants of Mount Elgon" 28th September, 7.30pm

7/6/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
A talk by Stephen Powles “Going Under Ground - The Cave Elephants of Mt Elgon
​
Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano straddling the Kenya/Uganda border, is home to a unique population of elephants. Consuming a montane vegetation made low in minerals by the leaching effect of heavy rainfall, elephants travel up to 150m into the mountain to “mine” the mineral rich volcanic rock. The talk will also explore the wider natural and cultural history of the mountain and the fascinating theories as to how the caves might have been formed.

Wednesday, 28th September 2022 at 7:30pm
The Kenn Centre, 3 Exeter Rd, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7TW
The talks will also be run online via Zoom, so there are tickets available for The Kenn Centre and for Zoom.

Members: £2.50   Non Members: £4.00

Please book your space through Eventbrite

BOOK HERE

As usual, all profits will go towards the running of our talks, the Harvest Mouse Project, the Small Grants Scheme and maintaining equipment for members to borrow.


0 Comments

Devon Bat Survey 2021 Results - Tuesday 26th April 2022 7:30pm via Zoom

13/4/2022

0 Comments

 
PictureCredit Mike Symes
By Elinor Parry (Devon Wildlife Trust)
Devon Bat Survey is a citizen science project that has been running through Devon Wildlife Trust since 2016. The aim is to give anyone the opportunity to find out what bats are about near them, by borrowing a bat detector which will record the ultrasonic calls the bats make and are used to identify them to species. The project was funded through Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project which came to an end earlier this year, and has now been taken on by Devon Biodiversity Records Centre (supported by Saving Devon's Treescapes and the Halpin Trust). Find out how bats have been doing in Exeter, Seaton, Torbay and South Devon.
​
Tuesday, 26th April 2022 at 7:30pm
 
Online via Zoom
Members: £2.50   Non Members: £4.00

Please book your space through Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devon-bat-survey-2021-results-by-elinor-parry-tickets-312169365977

0 Comments

Watch this space for our 2022 events

2/4/2022

0 Comments

 
We'll update this section soon with our upcoming events. We're working on bringing you an exciting variety of topics over the next few months! All members will get details of events sent to them as soon as they're confirmed.

Our next talk will be on the 26th April. Elinor Parry from Devon Biodiversity Records Centre will be talking to us about the Devon Bat Survey. More details soon.
0 Comments

AGM followed by a talk by Dr Robyn Grant: “The walrus’s whiskers and the mouse’s moustache: why do animals have whiskers?” 28th April, 7:30pm

8/4/2021

0 Comments

 
One of the most striking features on the faces of many mammals
are the presence of their long whiskers, or vibrissae. Primarily,
these are used for touch sensing, and can be employed to guide
behaviours such as foraging, navigation, and social interactions.
Most mammals have whiskers at some stage of their life, and these
have a common muscle architecture. While similarities in whisker
position and muscle architecture suggest a common mammalian
ancestor with whiskers, variations in morphology and anatomy
reveal that whiskers are also adapted to function in many species.
This presentation will describe similarities and differences in
mammalian whisker morphology and behaviour. We find that
whiskers are especially prominent in nocturnal, arboreal and
aquatic mammals, that also tend to move their whiskers.
Understanding more about differences in whisker form and function
will provide important insights into mammalian sensory biology.
​
Dr Robyn Grant is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Physiology
and Behaviour at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a
sensory biologist, studying the sense of touch in mammals and
birds. She works closely with museums and zoos to better
understand the functional significance of facial sensors.

Wednesday 28th April 2021
at 7.30pm

This event will be held online via Zoom
Members - £2.50        Non members - £4.50
Please follow the link to Eventbrite to book your place

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-walruss-whiskers-the-mouses-moustache-why-do-animals-have-whiskers-tickets-149585096049 

All profits we take will go towards the following:
The running of our talks
The Harvest Mouse Project
Our Small Grants Scheme
Maintaining equipment for members to borrow
Picture
0 Comments
<<Previous

    Author

    Devon Mammal Group

    Archives

    April 2023
    March 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    April 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020

    Categories

    All
    Event

    RSS Feed

Site powered by Weebly. Managed by 34SP.com