Cirl buntings are nesting in scrubland on the edge of the Royal Jersey Golf Course not far from where the Island’s famous champion golfer, Harry Vardon, grew up.
Ornithologists feared that the species had been wiped out in Jersey for good in 2004 – the last official recording of the bird, at Beauport, however, their hopes were raised in 2012 when male members of the species were seen at Les Landes and on the golf course by Mick Dryden of the Birds on the Edge group.
Since then the group, which aims to save Jersey’s birds from extinction, has been working with the Société Jersiaise, the Environment Department, the National Trust for Jersey, Durrell, the Chef Tenants of Grouville and the Royal Jersey Golf Club to encourage the cirl bunting to stay.
