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 ...

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 ...

From events and training to equipment, funding and work experience, BTO Youth is here for you. BTO Youth’s vision is of a diverse, vibrant community of young birders supported by BTO, with accessible, ...

Every 20 years or so volunteer birdwatchers carry out a complete stock-take of the birds of Britain and Ireland for the Bird Atlas. Bird Atlas 2007–11 was one of the most ambitious volunteer projects ...

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 ...

The Breeding Bird Survey is the main scheme for monitoring the population changes of the UK’s common and widespread breeding birds. BBS volunteers can view and enter data through the online portal.

If you are interested in taking part as a counter, please read through this guidance and instructions. It covers where the sites are, types of counts, time and skills required, how the survey is ...

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 ...

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 ...

All birds are protected in some form, but some species have additional protection during the breeding season as do their nests, eggs and dependent young. To disturb these you must obtain a special ...

Hearing is arguably a more important sense to a hunting owl than vision. As this article demonstrates, owls have very well-developed hearing, which enables them to pinpoint the location of their ...

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, ...