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Working with our publishing partner Taylor & Francis, we have brought together a suite of scientific studies across two issues of Bird Study that both document the spread and impact of high ...
The WeBS and GSMP Partnerships WeBS is a partnership jointly funded by BTO, RSPB and JNCC, with fieldwork conducted by volunteers and previous support from WWT. The permanent members of the WeBS ...
Read an article on the provisional findings from the first year of the project, from Bird Table magazine.; About Blackbirds in Gardens. Blackbirds are a common bird in gardens across the UK, from ...
Cuckoos are a widespread and familiar bird across much of the UK, and many people can recognise the famously onomatopoeic song, but sadly we have lost more than a third of our breeding Cuckoos since ...
BTO participated in species research and monitoring underpinning a landscape restoration project in Belarus and Ukraine, aimed at protecting and restoring the wetland wilderness of Polesia. It was a ...
About Garden BirdWatchBTO has run the year-round Garden BirdWatch scheme since 1995, and thousands of people across the UK contribute their sightings each week.Gardens are really important habitats ...
BirdFacts draws together up-to-date information on status and trends for all species routinely monitored by BTO schemes and surveys, often in partnership with other organisations.Completeness of this ...
In the largest font, you will find the species’ common name, as regularly used in the UK. Increasingly, there is a move towards 'standardised' English names, which usually means adding appropriate ...
Bird Study publishes high-quality papers relevant to the sphere of interest of the British Trust for Ornithology: broadly, field ornithology, especially related to evidence-based bird conservation..
Overview. State of Nature 2019 documents how human impacts are driving sweeping changes in wildlife in the UK. As well as an overarching assessment of UK flora and fauna, there are separate reports ...
Overview. The report summarises information on trends in more than 3100 species within the major taxonomic groups assessed. The report presents a new Watchlist Indicator, a cross-taxa priority species ...
Each of the BTO Acoustic Pipeline ultrasonic classifiers covers European bats, small terrestrial mammals and bush-crickets and moths. This page details the full list of species covered by the ...