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 ...

This is the 31st annual report of the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and Waterways Breeding Bird Survey (WBBS), documenting the population abundance trends of widespread UK breeding bird ...

Satellite technology is helping scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to better understand the pressures that the UK’s breeding Cuckoos face as they make annual migrations of 16,000 ...

BTO runs a wide range of bird ID training and ornithology courses throughout the year. You can also find out more about our trainers and youth-only courses, events and training, and about our other ...

Throughout the year we send out press and media releases to individuals and organisations who have signed up to receive these. This page holds details of the press releases posted over the past two ...

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 ...

Pink-footed Goose is one of the so-called 'grey' geese, smaller and more compact than the more common Greylag, with a higher pitched call. The entire Icelandic and eastern Greenlandic population of ...

The BTO/CRP Wader Monitoring Scheme (WaMS) pilot trials a new approach to summarising wader breeding success across local projects. Local wader projects or anyone monitoring breeding waders are ...

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 ...

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, ...

This introduced species is now widespread across England and Wales, but has a somewhat patchy distribution in Scotland and is localised in Ireland. Native to North America, the Canada Goose was first ...

Here is an alphabetical list of the regularly occurring UK bird species that are listed in our BirdFacts Species database. Our database also includes an entry for all species on the official British ...