Join our friendly staff and volunteer team who are available this spring to help you feel more confident with bird identification and/or survey skills, whether you’ve done some surveys before or you ...

As a European birder, the title of this book may at first seem slightly baffling; what exactly are Oystercatchers returning from? However, the eponymous bird is in fact the American Oystercatcher, a ...

The BTO Birds in Greenspaces project will run from 1 April to 30 June 2026 and aims to find out just how important greenspaces are for UK birds, and provide guidance on effective greenspace management ...

It’s been another week of summer visitors trickling in, with reporting rates continuing to tick up for all of our earlier arriving species. During the last week Chiffchaffs have been recorded on 60% ...

Nest recording is a way to observe and record birds’ nests and breeding activity. It helps scientists understand how birds are doing, which species are thriving, and which may need extra conservation ...

As we enter March, temperatures are rising, the sun is occasionally shining, and signs of spring are starting to appear. As well as species that are exclusively summer visitors to Britain and Ireland, ...

A list of the bird species in the UK, Ireland and Isle of Man which have special protection during the breeding season, known as Schedule 1 species. All birds which have special protection during the ...

After a mild and very wet couple of weeks to start December, the weather took a turn at Christmas with the first proper cold snap of the winter. This, combined with some spells of easterly winds, has ...

Birdwatchers across the UK have been charting the rise and rise of the very distinctive Little Egret for decades, but scientists have been unable to accurately calculate the breeding population of ...

Forget ‘five gold rings’, how about 866,000 alloy ones? A new report from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) highlights the latest findings from wild bird ringing activities across the UK and ...

Satellite technology is helping scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to better understand the pressures that the UK’s breeding Cuckoos face as they make annual migrations of 16,000 ...

Every 20 years or so volunteer birdwatchers carry out a complete stock-take of the birds of Britain and Ireland for the Bird Atlas. Bird Atlas 2007–11 was one of the most ambitious volunteer projects ...