Twite Breeding Season Survey, Wales 2008

This survey updated a survey undertaken in 2002 by Snowdonia National Park and the National Trust. In Wales, twite are restricted primarily to northern Snowdonia around the valley of Nant Ffrancon and Llyn Ogwen, bounded by the Carneddau to the north and east, by Elidir Fawr and Y Garn to the west and by the Glyder range to the south, where breeding has been recorded since 1944 (Lovegrove et al. 1994), with post breeding flocks of over 150 birds in the recent past (1999 - 2000). This dataset also contains records other species in addition to twite which were recorded during the survey.