The Little Owl is a species of open country, favouring lowland habitats such as farmland, parkland and orchards. Introduced from the Continent during the latter part of the 19th century, the species ...

One of the most obvious ways in which birds have responded to climate change is by shifting the timing of their breeding and migration. In spring, many long-distance migratory species are now arriving ...

Good quality information on species’ population trends is essential for successful conservation action. In this paper, the dataset of the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is made publicly ...

What better way to start 2025 than a bit of winter birdwatching in a friendly group. During winter, the shores of Northern Ireland are home to a range of coastal bird species as large numbers of ...

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What better way to start 2025 than a bit of winter birdwatching in a friendly group. During winter, the shore near Limavady is home to a range of coastal bird species as large numbers of waders, ...

Land use change is crucial to addressing the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss while enhancing food security. The interconnected and spatially varying nature of the impacts ...

Mae adar ysglyfaethus yn adar hynod o diddorol a charismatig, a mae Cymru yn gartref i 17 o’r 20 rhywogaethau sydd yn bridio a welod yn yr DU. Mae eu hecoleg a'u hymddygiad yn digon arbennig bod ...

We have received a number of complaints regarding the involvement of a ringer holding a BTO permit in a finch-trapping initiative being run by the Maltese government. Under this initiative large ...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective tools for acoustic classification tasks such as species identification. Large datasets of labelled recordings are required to develop CNN classifiers ...

Read the annual report of the Seabird Monitoring Programme, a BTO / JNCC / RSPB publication about the abundance and productivity of breeding seabird species in Britain and Ireland from 1986 to 2023.

This report presents the latest seabird population trends in breeding abundance and productivity using data from the Seabird Monitoring Programme (SMP). The report documents changes in the abundance ...