What do we want to find out?
- The data collected by the 2025 survey and the reports of sightings, will be analysed to investigate:
- The extent of the Dipper population in the Stroud Valleys: size, density, location and extent.
- The environmental factors limiting the extent of Dipper distribution in the catchment (including the characteristics of the riverine habitats they use or avoid).
- Dipper feeding ecology through the analyses of droppings at feeding sites and nest-boxes.