British Trust for Ornithology
Looking out for birds? Share your interest in birds with others by being part of the BTO. Volunteer surveyors, members and staff work in partnership to provide unbiased information about birds and their habitats. Join or volunteer today and make birds count!
Southerners flourish
Data collected by BTO volunteers have contributed to a Natural England report, published today, that reveals large scale changes ahead. As temperatures rise with a changing climate, southerly distributed species are likely to thrive, while more northerly species feel the pinch. Read the report here
Three Cuckoos south of the Sahara
By the 9 July all of our Satellite-tagged Cuckoos had left the UK. Now Hennah, Stanley and Dudley have not only made it to Africa, they have also completed their desert crossings and are south of the Sahara. You can view their current locations, and those of our other tagged-Cuckoos, on the maps and blogs.
Artists document our summer migrants
The last few weeks have seen SWLA artists out in the field with BTO ringers and nest recorders, working together to document our summer migrants for the BTO/SWLA Flight Lines project. Two of the artists, Esther Tyson and Harriet Mead, joined BTO staff Ian Henderson and Greg Conway to capture the work they have been doing on the Nightjars in Thetford Forest.
BTO and bats in Norfolk
New BTO research, published in the international journal Biological Conservation, describes how the Norfolk Bat Survey has harnessed the efforts of East Anglia’s citizen scientists to map bat distributions and activity on an unprecedented scale. The Survey has now generated one of the most extensive high-quality datasets for bats from anywhere in the world. Read more here.