Training Workshops

Discover & Learn

Do you want to get closer to your local wildlife, develop your natural history skills and learn about what special wildlife you have right on your doorstep?

The workshops are run in a relaxed atmosphere and are a great way to meet like-minded people.
They are held at some of the best wildlife sites in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Northamptonshire.
The trainers are enthusiastic local naturalists, who are more than willing to share their vast knowledge with workshop participants.
All you need is an interest in your local wildlife and a passion to learn!

2024 - Wildlife Training Workshops

For 2024 we are mostly returning to our face-to-face training workshops with a few online workshops being held before the Spring, using Microsoft Teams Live.

NOTE THAT ALL BOOKINGS FOR 2024 TRAINING WORKSHOPS ARE TO BE MADE THROUGH OUR WEBSITE USING THE CHECKOUT ON EACH INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOP

(Please email trainingworkshops@wildlifebcn.org if you are unable to book online)

Many thanks to the Wildflower Society and HLF (Peatland Progress project) for funding towards workshops within this programme

Download the 2024 leaflet

Wildlife Training Workshops coming up...

Short Wood and Southwick Wood,

Oundle

More info

Workshop topics

Vertebrates

From amphibians, birds and small mammals, our vertebrate training courses offer an insight into some of our most iconic species. These workshops should improve your field skills for surveying and monitoring vertebrates such as raptors, bats, small mammals and birds.

Invertebrates

From flies to solitary bees, dragonflies, butterflies, and bushcrickets and grasshoppers discover the fascinating world of invertebrates. A wide range of workshops covering identification, basic ecology and monitoring of invertebrates.

Botany

Explore the wonderful world of plants from wildflower identification to learning more about grasses and trees. Primarily concerned with teaching wildflower identification skills both indoors and in the field.

Our introductory workshops are ideal for beginners looking to brush up their skills.

Many thanks to The Wildflower Society for funding towards our botanical training workshops.

Lower plants and fungi

Learn more about lower plants. A small number of introductory workshops concerned with the identification and basic ecology of liverworts, ferns, horsetails and fungi.

Practical and Introductory courses

Learn practical conservation skills or try an introductory course.

Practical

Following the success last year of the Spoon Carving workshops with Mark Ricketts, we are running them again during 2023.

Basic Ecology Skills

New for 2023 we are running an online Biological Recording training workshop, and due to high demand we are re-running the Basic Ecology Skills workshops - B ES 1 Species and Habitats and BES 2 Habitat Management and Monitoring.