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 ...
Climate change is a major threat to biodiversity, and migratory birds such as the Swallow and Willow Warbler are particularly vulnerable, due partly to their reliance on reliable sources of food and ...
The disease, known more widely as bird flu, has been detected in several species of wild bird in recent weeks and scientists are keen to map the disease’s spread and impacts across the UK this winter.
After an autumn that has been dominated by quite strong westerly winds, we finally saw a change in the weather recently with a few days of easterly winds. This brought a nice mix of migrants to the ...
I ended last week’s blog by suggesting that the window of south-easterly winds over the weekend could lead to an arrival of migrants on the east coast and fortunately there was some truth in that. The ...
After a very hot and dry summer it’s fair to say the weather has changed in the past week, with much more unsettled conditions and some much-needed rain as westerly winds from the Atlantic dominate.
A devastating wave of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI / bird flu) has triggered an unprecedented global wildlife emergency, decimating seabird and waterbird colonies across the UK and beyond.
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 ...
The latest review was published in December 2021, as Birds of Conservation Concern 5 (BOCC5). This updates the last assessment in 2015. Using standardised criteria, experts from a range of bird NGOs, ...
In June 2010 one of these birds was recaught, allowing our scientists to download the data collected over the winter months. You can see the route below. Soon after the bird began its return migration ...
Written by Dave Cromack and drawing on the BTO's expertise, this new book provides the perfect guide to building, erecting and monitoring nestboxes for a broad range of familiar bird species.
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