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London HogWatch
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News from our #hedgehog camera-trap surveys 📸🦔 #ZSL project promoting London's hedgehogs and urban wildlife conservation 🦊 Supported by British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
https://www.londonhogwatch.org/
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⚽️Know your hedgehogs from your footballs?⚽️
❄️Looking for a fun activity to fill these wintery evenings? ❄️

We need your help 'spotting' our Kingston National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey!

Help us to identify species & understand hedgehog populations in this key area: tinyurl.com/mt9cw4nd
Camera trap image in a garden of a hedgehog and a football
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hibernation season is back 💤 🦔

We've put together some tips about helping hedgehogs in these colder months 🍂

Visit @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social and Hedgehog Street to find out more!
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Night-time visitor caught on camera!🌙🦔

This curious hedgehog was captured during our National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey in @barnescommon.

The #NHMP is led by both @ptes-org.bsky.social and @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

@zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Quality assurance check by our most inquisitive participants! 🦊📸

#londonhogwatch #foxoftheday #fox #cameratrap #hedgehog #wildliferecording #london #urbanwildlife #londonnature #foxesofinstagram #hedgehoglove

@zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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When you get 5 minutes of autumnal sun and can start functioning again ✨☀️

This fox was captured during our Network Rail & @zslofficial.bsky.social Monitoring & Technology Team project to assess lineside biodiversity🛤️🐾

@zslscience.bsky.social #FoxOfTheDay #CameraTrapTuesday
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🚨Exciting news!🚨

Funded by City of London Corp & in collab with Heath Hands, our Highgate Wood survey is now LIVE on Zooniverse!

Help us to understand the hedgehog & wildlife populations in this ancient wood by signing up and classifying 👉 tinyurl.com/ykhprrt9

@highgatewood.bsky.social 🦔🦉🦊
Screenshot of London HogWatch Zooniverse project for Highgate Wood Survey, showing a hedgehog on a camera trap image
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Monday yawns are in full swing!🦊💤

#londonhogwatch #cameratrapping #cameratrap #london #fox #hedgehog #hedgehogs #foxesofinstagram #monday #mondaysyndrome

@zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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We all got that Friday feeling... even squirrels! ✨🌻🌞

#hogwatch #london #conservation #cameratraps #squirrel #hedgehog #hedgehogs #zsl #britishwildlife

@zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Our Highgate Wood survey funded by City of London Corporation & in collab with Heath Hands features in
Ham & High!

We found a big increase from 1 camera with hedgehog detections in 2017, to 19 cameras in 2025!🦔🎉
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/2vs25kyu

@zslscience.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
Hedgehogs 'make comeback' in Highgate Wood
Hedgehog visits in Highgate Wood have risen from one in 2017 to 19 in 2025, according to a ZSL survey, signalling a positive population recovery.
www.hamhigh.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A new yoga pose: upward-facing fox! 🦊🧘‍♀️

This zen fox was captured during our National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey with Kingston Council. You help to 'spot' more scenes like this by visiting tinyurl.com/5kn3cr7e 👈🦔

@ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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We're surveying Regents Park, a park we've surveyed since 2016🦔

Huge thanks to Raffles London at The OWO who part funded the survey & volunteered with deployment!

This will provide vital insights into this important central population!
@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @theroyalparks.bsky.social
ZSL staff member shows volunteers how to deploy a camera trap Image of an area of Regents Park, showing their lake and bridge. Area of Regents Park, showing a pathway covered in luscious green vegetation. Image of a camera trap strapped to a tree in Regents Park, showing a whiteboard with information about the survey.
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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We're extremely excited to announce the launch of our new website!

It's your go-to place for keeping up to date with the latest London HogWatch projects: www.londonhogwatch.org

Huge thanks to @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social for funding it's creation & making it possible 🦔
September 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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It's #NationalAllotmentsWeek2025 🪴🌻

Allotments are important green spaces and habitat for #hedgehogs and other wildlife in urban environments. We've been monitoring a few allotments as part of the this year and they've been beautiful and full of wildlife! 🦔 🦋 🦉@zslofficial.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Barnes Common is known to be a habitat for bee wolves, which are solitary wasps that dig burrows in sandy areas. These wasps are also known as bee-killers due to their habit of catching and paralyzing honey bees to provision their nests. The females dig the burrows, sometimes reaching a meter in length with multiple side tunnels, and then hunt bees to store in these chambers for their larvae to feed on. Camera trap deployment, writing field notes Cinnabar moth caterpillar on a ragwort plant. Volunteers learning how to put up a camera trap.
July 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We're very excited to announce our Richmond Park Zooniverse Project, a collaboration with Friends of Richmond Park & The Royal Parks, is now live!!

Help us to identify the species captured in this study & discover the wildlife of Richmond! 🦔🦆🦌

@frptweets.bsky.social ‪@theroyalparks.bsky.social
zooniverse.bsky.social Zooniverse @zooniverse.bsky.social · Jul 23
‪✨ New project on Zooniverse: London HogWatch! Help the research team understand where animals of Richmond Park live, when they’re active, and how they’re sharing space with people and other species! Try it: www.zooniverse.org/projects/lon...

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July 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We successfully deployed National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme cameras with @wildchiswick.bsky.social!

Many thanks to Chiswick House & volunteers! We saw lots of hog-friendly initiatives such as highways & habitat 🦔

The #NHMP is led by both @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Happy Hogiversary Chloe!! 🥳

Thank you for all the hard work over the last 3 years! This year Chloe has been a 🌟and created our very own Zooniverse project (tinyurl.com/46fj3sun) allowing us to engage more people in our conservation projects. 🦔🦊
July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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How Clean Is Your House? Queens Wood camera collection edition!

Our 1st camera collection of the year was a success & as always, lots of insects made our camera traps their home.

Thanks to Friends of Queens Wood & volunteers who helped! Time to see what the cameras collected👀
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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While half the team were living it up at #GlastonburyFestival this weekend the animals were having their own party! 🦊 🎊 🥳 #GlastonburyFestival @zslofficial.bsky.social‬
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Did you know that #Tawnyowls can rotate their heads up to 270 degrees! An owls forward-facing eyes cannot move in their sockets, so they must turn their heads instead. This movement helps with finding + catching their prey!

📸 @barnescommon.bsky.social‬ #FunfactFriday #DYK @zslofficial.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#ThrowbackThursday to this squirrel's fortunate getaway in 2022! We captured quite a bit of action on this camera of a juvenile fox chasing them, but the squirrels always managed to escape! 🐿️ 🦊#FoxofTheDay @chrisgpackham.bsky.social‬ @zslofficial.bsky.social‬
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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4) One of my favourites from previous library tours is the beautifully illustrated book on insects of Suriname by Marie Sibille Merian. I’m now thinking I need to come up with a research project that requires me to live in the library and devour all these incredible books! (5/5)
June 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Happy Insect Week! 🪲 Check out all the wonderful things ZSL Research Fellow (and certified insect expert) Charlie Outhwaite is sharing across the week, and show these minibeasts some love 👇
charlieouthwaite.bsky.social Charlie Outhwaite @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 24
It’s day 2 of Insect Week! 🪰🐜🐝🪳Today I have been to visit the @zslofficial.bsky.social library to see some of the wonderful insect books in their Insect Week display. #standtallforthesmall @royentsoc.bsky.social (1/5)
June 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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On Thursday we deployed cameras in Queen's Wood! Funded by @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social & Friends of Queen's Wood, this is the first survey of the area since 2017!

Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the survey, we're very excited to see what we will find! 🦔📸
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Help wildlife in this heat by providing/checking water sources! Whether a pond, pool, or bowl, make sure its #hedgehog friendly!

Place shallow, clean dishes of water & add small stones to give insects something to float on🪲 🦔 🐦 🐝💧 #WaterforWildlife @zslofficial.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM