For rewilding estates

Build a record from the start

Start listening early and you'll have a record to look back on as grazing changes, scrub develops or wetlands are restored.

For your land management team, it's another source of observations to work with. For trustees, donors and funders, it's a way to follow changes over time. For visitors, it's a chance to discover wildlife they might otherwise miss.

Continuous listening can also reveal things nobody thought to look for, like the wrens we heard singing from midnight.

What the monitors give you

• A growing record of your birds. See which species are being detected, when they're heard and how their recorded activity changes through the year.
• Quality reporting. Clear charts and plain-English findings to share with your team, trustees and supporters, with access to the detection data too.
• Discoveries to share. Bring the estate's birdlife into your website, visitor centre or guest accommodation through recordings, live displays and activities.
• A setup suited to your land. We help you choose an approach around the places you want to monitor, the questions you want to explore, and the power and connectivity available.

Our specialism is acoustic monitoring and presenting the data clearly, and we're happy to work alongside your ecologist.

Reports that make the changes clear

Which birds were heard this season? When did summer visitors first appear? Which species were recorded again the following year? Our reports turn thousands of detections into findings you can understand and share.

You get species lists, activity heatmaps showing when birds were calling, and plain-English notes on what stands out. Where the recordings support it, we compare seasons, years or monitoring locations.

We agree the reporting schedule with you, so the findings are available when you need them for updates, meetings or planning.

For a taste of what the data can show, explore what autumn sounds like in the Lakes, from the last house martin detections of the season to the first geese being heard.

We've also made our charting tool, BeakPlot, open source.

Help your guests discover what's here

Visitors can see which birds have been heard on the estate that day, then listen out for them on their walk.

• On your website. A live page showing what's been heard on the estate, like the live bird call detection page we built for the Lake District National Park.
• On a big screen. A display in the farmhouse, lodge, café or visitor centre, showing the latest birds heard and the day's highlights.
• In your visitors' hands. Our Bird Spotter app runs on iPads at the monitor. Visitors can explore the birds heard nearby, look at photos, listen to recordings, and play games to learn birds by sound and sight.

Where we're listening now

Foulshaw Moss, Cumbria Wildlife Trust

At Foulshaw Moss in south Cumbria, Cumbria Wildlife Trust has been restoring a lowland raised bog by removing conifers and blocking drains to rewet the peat.

We installed our monitor in September 2026. It's early days, but each season of listening will add to the picture as restoration continues.

Gowbarrow Hall Farm, Ullswater

At this regenerative farm on the shore of Ullswater, our monitor heard linnets, a Red-listed farmland finch, on 13 different days during summer 2026, and picked up curlews too. Read more in Britain's birds are at a record low.

We're also listening at:

• Sizergh, the National Trust estate, where staff and volunteers check the iPads every day.
• The Lake District National Park, whose first monitor went in near Kendal in August 2025, with its detections published on the park's own website.
• Farms and outdoor learning sites, including Low Beckside Farm and Basecamp North Lakes.

How it works on your estate

Power and connectivity

Where there's power and Wi-Fi, a monitor listens around the clock and is the simplest, lowest-cost option. For remote parts of the estate, battery-powered recorders can collect audio without either for later analysis. We're also developing an off-grid monitor with its own solar power and mobile connection.

Identification and recordings

Our continuous monitors run BirdNET-Go, a community-developed platform using the BirdNET identification model from Chemnitz University of Technology and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We adjust the settings to suit your site, drawing on our experience across the Lake District. Detections include a short recording so they can be checked by ear.

The monitors record which birds were calling rather than how many there are, so if you need counts, we'd pair them with a survey.

A privacy filter is enabled on every continuous monitor, discarding recordings where it detects human speech.

Planning your setup

Tell us which habitats you want to follow and what you'd like to learn. We can discuss monitor locations and numbers, installation and upkeep, what your team would need to do, and the reporting or visitor displays you'd find useful. We'll set out the costs and what's included in your proposal.