An adult male Adder out at a spring basking site this week.
Concern has been growing about the status of UK adder populations, with expert opinion reporting widespread declines. Assessing the true scale of these declines, however, has been hampered by a lack of quantitative data. Make the Adder Count began in 2005 as a national surveillance programme collecting standardised counts of adders lying-out after emerging from hibernation. Read the full paper here...
https://www.thebhs.org/…/1886-06-i-make-the-adder-coun…/file
