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Waterbirds in the UK presents the results of the annual Wetland Bird Survey Report. Since 2022, Waterbirds in the UK is also ...
‘Biodiversity’ describes the variety of life in an area. It can be measured in areas as small as a back garden and as big as the entire Earth, and encompasses everything from genetic diversity and ...
Spend any time watching your gardens birds and you'll soon discover a host of different behaviours. It might be a Blackbird preening its feathers, a group of Starlings whirling about the sky in a ...
The go-to species for personality research has, more often than not, been the easy-to-study Great Tit. Great Tits can’t be asked to fill out a questionnaire or to undertake a psychometric test, and so ...
The BTO Acoustic Pipeline enables accurate species identification and data management for acoustic monitoring, in conservation, management and site assessment. It offers bespoke audible classifiers ...
The American wood warblers are similar in in size, shape and habits to the old world warblers, to which they are not at all related, though they are generally rather more colourful, particularly the ...
As the name suggests, the three species of Tropicbird are usually to be found wandering the tropical oceans. They are very distinctive white birds with two long tail streamers. Their supposed ...
Perhaps the most graceful of seabirds, their buoyant flight and long tail-streamers means they well deserve their alternative name of sea-swallows. Found throughout the world, they are summer visitors ...
English Farm Woodland Birds 2019 Non-Estuarine Waterbird Survey 3 (NEWS III) 2015/16 Urban Gull Case Study 2018 & 2019 Northern Ireland Lowland Breeding Waders 2018 & 2019 ...
Welcome to the BTO Acoustic Pipeline Support Hub. Here you can find guides, technical requirements, information about equipment and other resources to help you ...
Frigatebirds are highly maneuverable aerial predators of tropical waters. The five species all breed in large colonies in trees on tropical islands. During courtship the males (which are mostly black) ...
This small family of waders is charcterised by slender bodies and long wings; the pratincoles also have very short legs. They are charcteristic of open semi-desert habitat in Africa, Asia and ...