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

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 ...

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 ...

A pair of Hoopoes succeeded in raising three young from a nest in farmland in Leicestershire and Rutland. This distinctive species from southern Europe, its plumage a combination of salmon-pink and ...

El Haddad, H., Austin, G., Woodward, I. & Booth Jones, K. 2023. Analysis of wintering waterbird population trends for the Lough Neagh and Lough Beg Special Protection Area (SPA). BTO Research Report ...

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 ...

BTO Data Reports provide rigorous scientific information to inform fieldwork decisions and desk studies for Ecological Impact Assessment of potential development sites in the UK. (Please read our ...

This study updates previous reports that assessed population trends of waterbird species in different parts of the Humber Estuary, in order to identify areas where species were declining contrary to, ...

Cleeve has spent the past six weeks or so in much the same area along the northern Nigeria border, with little sign of movement. However, in the last few days he has covered around 1,200 km (745 miles ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...