Intro to Wildlife Identification and Tracking

2nd of May 2024, 10am-4:30pm

Do you want to learn more about nature? Have you ever wondered whose footprint that is? Would you like to know who has been munching on those nuts or pine cones?

Then this is the course for you.

On this new Introduction to Wildlife Identification and Tracking course we will explore tracks, feathers, skulls & bones, scat, homes & resting places, kill sites, feeding signs, owl pellets and more!

This course is aimed at anyone interested in wildlife and conservation. Whether you are a keen amateur or developing a career in the Environment / Outdoor Education sector this course is for you.

I will put out some footprint tunnels the night before, and Longworth small mammal traps. We will also make footprint casts.

What we find and discuss will vary on each course depending on the season, weather and 

what we discover.

Please bring a packed lunch.

Tutor: Ryan Knight Fox

Ryan is an experienced tutor, having been running his own woodland business ‘Knight-Fox Wild About Learning’ since 2017. He is an Ecologist, teacher of Wildlife Identification & Tracking, Ethnobotanist, Bushcraft Instructor, Social Forester, Forest School Leader and Coastal School Leader. As well as running adult courses, children’s events and after school groups from his site at The New Quay Honey Farm Woods, he has worked with various organisations, such as: Coed Lleol/ Actif Woods, Lampeter University- Archaeology Department, Ray Ceredigion, Ieuenctid Tysul Youth, various schools and nurseries, DASH, Flying Start and of course Denmark Farm.

Fee: £65 per person (includes hot drinks & biscuits).