Operation Chough Webcam Update

The 2025 Operation Chough web cam is now LIVE!

The pictures for our nest cam are from our seclusion aviaries, a quiet location where we breed Red-billed Choughs as part of our long-term project for the species. We monitor all the nests and choose one to show, depending on the activity going on at any particular time.

Some of the cameras have tiny lights inside the nestbox and at night they switch to infra-red so the birds can be seen roosting, incubating eggs or brooding chicks 24 hours a day.

As well as images, there is also sound from the nests. We find this helpful to understand if the adults are doing their ‘feeding call’. This call is needed early on as the chicks don’t open their eyes for a few days and need an audible signal to know that it is the right time to open their mouths for food.

During the breeding season the chicks are constantly monitored by camera, and if necessary weighed and given supplementary feed or veterinary care. If a nest needs to be accessed for this, the adult birds are encouraged to stay out of the way using positive reinforcement methods.

KENT RE-INTRODUCTION PROJECT
Chicks bred this year will be supplementing the growing flock of released choughs in Kent as part of the ongoing Chough Re-instroduction Program.

With thanks to our partners at Kent Wildlife Trust and Wildwood Trust who raised funds so that we could increase the number of aviaries in 2024 available for chough breeding.

JERSEY RE-INTRODUCTION PROJECT
For news on the reintroduction of the species in Jersey, where choughs bred here at Paradise Park are now living free after an absence of 100 years, go to the ‘Returning the red-billed chough to Jersey‘ page. There are now about 60 choughs flying free in Jersey, most of them having fledged in the wild with thanks to our partners at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

DONATE
If you would like to make a donation to help the work of ‘Operation Chough’ here at Paradise Park we would be extremely grateful. Thank you xx

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Find out about our work, history, achievements and lots more on our dedicated Operation Chough website.

Photo: Ray weighing a chough chick at Operation Chough HQ.

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