This 2-hour online session will use worked examples and live exercises to highlight and practice applying the key considerations for determining the territories of breeding birds from observations ...

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Nest predation is a major cause of breeding failure in many bird species, and understanding the species responsible for this is important in designing effective conservation interventions. This study ...

When the BTO Ringing Scheme was established over 100 years ago, the primary focus was the study of bird movements. While ringing data can still be used to study migration and dispersal, today they are ...

Climate change is a major threat to biodiversity, and migratory birds such as the Swallow and Willow Warbler are particularly vulnerable, due partly to their reliance on reliable sources of food and ...

Acoustic monitoring is a powerful, unique and insightful approach that gives us a fresh perspective and new information about our ecosystems Passive Acoustic Monitoring is where ornithology meets ...

Passive acoustic monitoring is an effective way of monitoring the elusive and declining Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, improving our understanding of the species’ ecology and the conservation action that ...

Seabird Population Trends and Causes of Change: 1986–2023 documents changes in the abundance and productivity of breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland from 1986 to 2023, including data for both ...

Fewster, R.M., Buckland, S.T., Siriwardena, G.M., Baillie, S.R. & Wilson, J.D. 2000. Analysis of population trends for farmland birds using generalised additive ...

This event comprises a 2.5 km guided walk around RSPB Rainham Marshes, learning how to identify the key species that call Rainham home as well as learning about BTO surveys such as the Wetland Bird ...

Back in the first migration blog of this autumn we made the point that autumn migration could be said to start in June, as this is when we see the first southbound waders passing through Britain. The ...