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This specialist magazine is produced for people who monitor a hazel dormouse site or have a particular interest in dormice. You can view current and past issues in the viewer or as a PDF below. You can then choose to print if you wish. If this is not possible please contact susan.sharafi@ptes.org and we can print a copy in the office to post to you.

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Older PDF issues

Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2012
Contents:
Meldon Woods (AKA Bluebell Woods)
Why didn’t the dormice cross the gaps?
Dormice found on our first wildlife bridge
Taking a closer look at dormice in torpor
NDMP 2011 results
Essex and Suffolk dormouse project
Midger Wood monitoring site
Berkshire Mammal Group dormouse work
Herefordshire dormice in unlikely places
Dormouse box trials
Blackford Wood National Trust site
Daisy and the dormouse day
How dormice use their landscape
Urban dormice
Buytl pond liner nest box covers
Nocturnal tree mammals, Romania
Dormouse Monitor vol.2 2011
Contents:
Isle of Wight red squirrel and dormouse survey
Planting nuts to detect dormice
PTES intern project update
Little Linford box check October 2011
Hazel dormice through Irish eyes
Eighth International Dormouse Conference
German dormouse study
NDMP 2010 – a closer look at dormouse weights and hibernation
Elaine Hurrell remembered
Results of the third Great Nut Hunt
Problems with plastic nest boxes
Prisoner-made dormouse boxes
Surveying hazel dormice with tubes and boxes; a comparison
News
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2011
Contents:
Yorkshire dormouse release update
Tribute to Jonathan Woods
Edge Wood study of dormice
A long-term study of edible dormice, Bucks
Haslemere hedgerow project
Warwickshire Dormouse Conservation Group
First dormouse release Hailey Wood, Hertfordshire 1992
Shooters are leading on a new hazel dormouse project in Cheshire
Underpasses for dormice?
Dormouse activity on the A30 in Cornwall
Survival rates of hibernating Glis glis
An easy way to reduce PIT-tag loss in rodents
The eff ects of habitat loss and fragmentation on dormice in central Italy
The behaviour of dormice in hedgerows with gaps
Training courses and news

Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2010
Contents:
Dormouse mitigation and translocation
2009 NDMP results
Kilimanjaro tea party
Nut hunts and tea at Stara Woods
Golden Great Nut Hunt update
Restoring hedgerow havens
Spangle galls for dormice?
Reintroduced dormice moving into the countryside
Nesting materials used by dormice?
Supermarket development stopped?
Reconnecting the countryside 2010
Habitat destruction and practical solutions
Rhos Cefn Bryn Wildlife Trust box trials
A study into dormmouse paternity
Garden dormice
Best box checking guidelines
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2010
Contents:
Forest dormice in the Russian foothills
Tributes to Michael Woods
Request for wild dormouse bodies
Loddiswell lodges for dormice
Seaside dormice at Slapton Ley NNR
How do edible dormice know when to breed?
Real estate for dormice in Wiltshire
Dormouse nests in strange places
New dormice for Warwickshire
Can nest tubes always detect dormice?
Training courses and news
Dormouse Monitor vol.2 2009
Contents:
Reconnecting the Countryside winners
Dormouse gestation periods
Nest boxes on stakes in coppiced wood
A tribute to Warren Cresswell
Romanian dormice in Transylvania
Can ecological theories aid nut hunts?
New booklet on woodland management
Little Linford Wood update
Training courses and news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2009
Contents:
NDMP 2008 data analysis
Dormice in the oak forests of Transylvania
North Wales Dormouse Project 2008
Go nuts for dormice
Twenty one year of the NDMP
Genetic diversity of south west dormice
Filming dormice in Surrey
Hazel dormouse Biodiversity Action Plan
Reconnecting the countryside award
Training courses and news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2008
Contents:
Dormouse release, Yorkshire
New hedgerow mapping project
Hazel pollarding update
NDMP Woodlands
Habitat-linkage work
The 7th International Dormouse Conference
Dormouse bridge report, Wildwood, Kent
PTES intern Alison Looser, Suffolk
Monitoring Midger Wood
Devon dormouse BAP work
Training courses and news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2008
Contents:
NDMP 2007 data analysis
Habitat management for wildlife
Recolonisation of coppiced areas
New dormouse tube
Pollarding hazel
Where dormice nest in hedges
Going nuts for birdfeeders
The 7th International Dormouse Conference
Little Linford Wood management work
Dead dormice – bodies wanted
Monitors news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2007
Contents:
Dormouse hibernation strategies
PTES-funded dormouse bridge study
Edible dormice in a stew
Coppicing and hazel management
Of dormice and men
Bontuchel Woods dormouse project
Yorkshire dormice and their future
EU Habitat regulations update
Training courses and news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2007
Contents:
Joining the dots in Cheddar, Somerset
Ever been bitten by a dormouse?
…or stung by a hornet?
Make your own nest tubes
NDMP 2006 Results and overview
Dormouse DNA project, Cheshire
Nest construction – further studies
Interactions bewtween dormice and birds
Bramley Frith – an update
Does deer fencing benefit dormice?
Training courses and news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2006
Contents:
Glis glis numbers booming
Romanian dormouse update
Dormouse reintroduction in Bradfield Woods, Suffolk
Chatsworth Estate release update
New: The Dormouse Conservation Handbook
Dormouse bridge, Somerset
Dormouse news
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2006
Contents:
Hibernating dormice
Dormice in Planted Ancient Woodland Sites
Health surveillance of dormice for reintroduction
Dormice at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
2005 NDMP results
Dormouse nest construction, Little Linford Wood
Suffolk reintroduction site
Monitor’s news and questions
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2005
Contents:
Green bridge in Kent
International dormouse conference
Aristocratic new resisidence for dormice
Transylvanian dormouse project
The disappearing Dormouse (from Country Life 1945)
Hibernating dormice
Monitor’s news and questions
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2005
Contents:
The day a dormouse came to lunch
Encouraging dormice to spread throughout the countryside
Discovering dormice in strange places
Monitoring the edible dormouse
Health surveillence in reintroduced dormice
A look at other surveys and monitoring programmes
National Bat monitoring programme
2004 National dormouse records
Volunteer news and questions
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2004
Contents:
The Chief Nutter takes the Nut Hunt to Germany
Building from Reintroductions
How to manage woods for dormice
Dormice in Batboxes
Dormice at the edge of their range
Tracking Mammals Partnership
Dormouse monitoring data online
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2004
Contents:
Weather, habitat and poulation trends – the good, the bad and the ugly for Britains’s dormice.
National Dormouse Inventory
2003 National Dormouse Nestbox Records
Get involved with other Mammal Monitoring
Doug Woods, an appreciation
News in brief
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2003
Contents:
Derbyshire dormouse reintroduction
How can we monitor Yellow-necked mice
News from Monitors
Do long, hot summers bring baby dormice?
South West dormouse project
News of other monitoring programmes
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2003
Contents:
2002 Records
Dormice in gorse
Beech fruiting and the Edible dormouse
Great Nut Hunt 2001-2002
The spread of dormouse populations from reintroduction sites
Post-mortems on dead dormice
Dormouse Day at Cirencester
News of other monitoring programmes
News from monitors
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2002
Contents:
2002 Dormouse Releases
Lincolnshire Reintroduction
Dormouse distribution still contracting
Dormice and Hedgerows
Trial Yellow-necked mouse and Wood mouse monitoring
5th International Dormouse Conference
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2002
Contents:
Understanding Dormouse Population Change
News from Monitors
News of Other Monitoring Programmes
2002 Re-introduction
Hedgerows, Dormice and Biodiversity
Dormouse Monitor vol. 2 2001
Contents:
Introduction
Dormouse Reintroductions 2001
5th International Dormouse Conference 2002
Dormouse Monitor vol. 1 2001
Contents:
An uncertain start to this year’s work
Information on recording in 2001
NDMP data
Dormice in Kent
Habitat, weather and dormouse populations
Dormice and hedgerows
Repeating the Great Nut Hunt in the autumn 2001