From walks and talks to our annual conference, BTO runs a wide range of bird ID training and ornithology courses throughout the year. Browse the listings below to find a training course that's right ...

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 ...

However, Richard Baine’s extraordinarily lovely memoir of sorts, while still being very much a first-hand account, is a different kind of beast altogether. And to my mind, all the better for it.

The Garden Bird Feeding Survey (GBFS) helps reveal how the food we provide affects the birds visiting our gardens. Participants are selected to take part from our existing Garden BirdWatch volunteers.

BTO Youth consists of a whole host of different people who work to bring our vision to life. BTO Youth’s vision is of a diverse, vibrant community of young birders supported by BTO, with accessible, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Red Kite was persecuted to the point of extinction in Britain, just about hanging on in Wales, but a late 20th century reintroduction programme has transformed the fortunes of this species. With ...

Spring and autumn can be exciting times for any birder. Thanks to data submitted by volunteers to BirdTrack, we are able to follow the arrival and departure of migrants through the seasons. During the ...

Woodward, I.D., Massimino, D., Hammond, M.J., Barber, L., Barimore, C., Harris, S.J., Leech, D.I., Noble, D.G., Walker, R.H., Baillie, S.R. & Robinson, R.A. 2021 ...