With this year's focus on heathland birds here at BTO, monitoring of Nightjars is very topical. Being nocturnal, detecting them requires dedicated night-time field surveys, which can be tricky in ...

About the surveyThe Heathland Birds Survey will survey all the Nightjars, Woodlarks and Dartford Warblers, in all habitats, throughout the UK and Channel Islands.

Read the latest updates from our Cuckoos on their epic migration between the UK and tropical Africa, or track their movements in real-time on our Cuckoo migration map. If you enjoy these updates, ...

Improve your identification of winter wildfowl and other waterbirds in this two-part online course.

Learn how to count flocks of birds and how to put your skills to use in the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) This course involves one online session of about 1 hour 45 minutes, with a trainer:participant ...

WeBS Methods, Analysis and Presentation WeBS Survey Methods, Analysis and Presentation supporting documentation contains more detailed descriptions of all the tables, statistics, maps and plots ...

Many waterbirds arrive in the UK during autumn, swelling the range of species and number of individuals we might see. However, this seasonal abundance can present extra identification challenges, too.

GPS tracking of three large gull species from the Isle of May, Scotland, revealed overlap in foraging habitats used during the breeding season, but differences in the where the three species foraged, ...

What does WBBS involve? WBBS volunteers undertake two counting visits between April and June, one before and one after mid May. The survey may require as little as 4–5 hours' fieldwork per year. On ...