About the surveyThe Heathland Birds Survey will survey all the Nightjars, Woodlarks and Dartford Warblers, in all habitats, throughout the UK and Channel Islands.

This North American cousin of the Goldcrest is an extremely rare visitor to our shores, typically crossing the Atlantic after getting caught in fast-moving storms. Following a handful of Western ...

BTO scientists call for urgent investment in long-term monitoring and improved approaches to disease response, as avian influenza decimates a suite of bird species ...

Waterbirds in the UK presents the results of the annual Wetland Bird Survey. Since 2022, Waterbirds in the UK has also been the primary reporting mechanism for the Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme.

Waterbirds in the UK presents the results of the annual BTO/RSPB/JNCC Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) report. Since 2022, Waterbirds in the UK is also the primary reporting mechanism for ...

May and June are busy times for Blue Tits. With eggs to incubate and young chicks getting bigger by the day, the demand for food is constant. Whilst these months mark the end of their breeding season, ...

Update: The 2025 spring survey season began on 13 April and is now live. The Blackbirds in Gardens project will help us understand how Blackbirds use gardens, and the potential effects of the Usutu ...

Evaluating the use of carcass and testing data to assess the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) related mortality in wild birds in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies between 2021–2023 ...

Protected areas (PAs) and agri-environment schemes (AESs) are the main policy mechanisms for addressing terrestrial biodiversity loss in Europe. Landscape context can moderate their efficacy but has ...

Overview Waterbirds in the UK presents the results of the annual Wetland Bird Survey Report. It provides a single, comprehensive source of information on the current status and distribution of ...

Nest boxes of the same type should not be sited too close together as this may promote aggressive behaviour between neighbours. The front of the nest box should be angled vertically or slightly ...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective tools for acoustic classification tasks such as species identification. Large datasets of labelled recordings are required to develop CNN classifiers ...