The publications We had a fantastic response to our for contributions for a special issue of Bird Study, documenting and exploring the impacts of the unprecedented recent outbreaks of Highly ...

The Middle East is something of an international stepping stone for both migratory birds and people travelling between Europe, Africa and Asia. For birdwatchers stopping over in this part of the world ...

Rhoades, J., Johnston, D.T., Humphreys, E.M. & Boersch-Supan, P.H. 2025. Review of methods used to calculate scale of artificial nesting structures proposed as a compensation measure for Kittiwake ...

The WeBS and GSMP Partnerships WeBS is a partnership jointly funded by BTO, RSPB and JNCC, with fieldwork conducted by volunteers and previous support from WWT. The permanent members of the WeBS ...

How will Blackbirds in Gardens help? This survey will help us understand the potential for disease transmission by Blackbirds in gardens by looking at the number of birds that occur together. It will ...

Cuckoos are a widespread and familiar bird across much of the UK, and many people can recognise the famously onomatopoeic song, but sadly we have lost more than a third of our breeding Cuckoos since ...

Areas of work Acoustic monitoring From April to September 2021 we deployed acoustic monitors throughout Polesia. These devices, record animal sounds from one hour before dusk to one hour after dawn.

About Garden BirdWatch BTO has run the year-round Garden BirdWatch scheme since 1995, and thousands of people across the UK contribute their sightings each week. Gardens are really important habitats ...

The latest review of the conservation status of birds in Wales comes 20 years after the first, when the Red List was less than half the length it is today.The report assessed all 220 bird species ...

Lastly, in the species heading information, we provide the ‘order’ and ‘family’ in which the species is currently classified. Orders and families are part of the hierarchy which is used to classify ...

Overview The State of Nature report is an assessment of how nature is doing across the UK. As well as an overarching assessment of UK flora and fauna, there are separate reports for England, Scotland, ...

Overview It provides a single, comprehensive source of information on the current status and distribution of waterbirds in the UK for those interested in the conservation of the populations of these ...