Spend as much time as you like following each Cuckoo's migration and reading the updates about their movements. No technical skills are required to support the Cuckoo Tracking project - just a love of ...

Upcoming events for BTO volunteers and supporters in Wales. Be one of the first to know about future training courses, events and our wider work in Wales by signing up to receive the BTO Cymru ...

The main theme at the conference this year is the value of bird recording and its importance for conservation. Speakers will include: professionals from BTO, RSPB and NRW amateur Welsh birders who ...

Breeds in broad-leaved and deciduous woodland. Resident and sedentary in its habits. Approximately 50,000 breeding pairs in the UK. Amber-listed Bird of Conservation Concern. Our most familiar owl, ...

What skills do I need to take part? Anyone with to a garden, an interest in garden birds and able to recognise a Blackbird by sight, including reliably separating adult male, adult female and ...

Changes in the amount and/or distribution of particular feather pigments are some of the most commonly reported types of plumage abnormality. Most often, these abnormalities occur within the common ...

The Blackbirds in Gardens project will help us understand how Blackbirds use gardens, and the potential effects of the Usutu virus on their population in the UK. Update: The 2025 survey season has now ...

The Winter Gull Survey collects information about our wintering gull populations, through the coordinated effort of volunteer surveyors across the UK. Winter Gull Survey volunteers can view and enter ...

Improve your bird identification skills and how to tell the difference between confusions species by watching our wide range of bird ID videos. We offer a wide range of training courses to help ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contrary to popular opinion, Nightingale is not the only bird that sings at night. In fact, due to its recent decline, you are more likely to hear other birds singing after dark.