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Patchy protection for migratory birds in Europe
BTO research indicates that many migratory bird species have inconsistent protection as they move through Europe, between their northern breeding grounds and their wintering quarters in Africa.
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2025
WeBS Report 2025
BBS Report 2025
- Major new report reveals changing fortunes for UK’s breeding birds
- Major new report reveals changing fortunes for Scotland’s breeding birds
- Mixed fortunes for Welsh birds revealed in major new report
- Major new report reveals changing fortunes for Northern Ireland’s breeding birds
Other Press releases
- Planning a better future for Northern Ireland’s natural heritage
- Virus continues to threaten favourite UK garden bird
- Where Goshawks dare…
- Evaluating protected areas for migratory birds
- Welsh bird survey off to a flying start
- Seeking the unsung heroes of the birding world
- Householders asked to show the love for the birds this Valentine's
- The plight of the English nightingale
- Heathland Birds Survey new for 2025
2024
- Saving birds through sharing science
- Cuckoo class of ‘24 makes it safely back to Africa (mostly…)
- Rare breeding birds continue to colonise UK
- Committed volunteers and conservationists win prestigious awards
- New Citizen Science project monitors Welsh raptors
- Young birders take the prize at Spurn Migfest
- Scotland’s seabird pirates in peril
- Unusual plumage variation in birds not so black and white
- If you go down to the woods tonight…
- Where have our gulls gone?
- Satellite-tagged Cuckoos clocked crossing continents
- Much-loved songbird threatened by mosquito-borne virus
- Breeding Bird Survey celebrates 30 years of citizen science in Northern Ireland
- Breeding Bird Survey celebrates 30 years of citizen science in Wales
- Breeding Bird Survey celebrates 30 years of citizen science in Scotland
- Breeding Bird Survey celebrates 30 years of citizen science
- Ducks take a dive as milder winters keep birds in an unfrozen north
- Bird and biodiversity benefits of better managed landscapes
- BTO to launch bird droppings identification app
- Will turbines signal an ill wind for Welsh Red Kites?
- Seabird tracking sheds new light on migration
- Shrike a light! BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2023 announced
- Youth In Nature Summit scales new heights in conservation collaboration
- Love birds welcome National Nest Box Week
- British gulls contribute to plastic pollution in European wetlands
- Mixed fortunes for UK’s herons and egrets
- Travel far, breed hard, die young! The surprising lifestyle choices of Short-eared Owls
- Evidence suggests that protected areas should be extended.
2023
- Declining seabirds on a cliff edge
- Volunteers needed to count winter gulls
- Young birders fly high
- New partnership to make a positive impact for birds
- Avian Flu experts urge beachgoers to report dead birds
- Thetford-based national bird charity celebrates big birthday
- Scientists discover why Cuckoos’ clocks can’t adjust to climate change
- New wave of bird flu rips through threatened gull and tern colonies
- And they’re off! 2023’s Cuckoos are tagged and ready to go
- The search is on to find the UK’s most knowledgeable young birders!
- Fears grow around new wave of Avian Influenza as disease kills thousands of inland gulls
- 73 million birds gone since 1970 – but which have vanished near you?
- He's back! First tracked Cuckoo of the 2023 makes landfall in the UK
- New report paints a mixed picture for Northern Ireland’s internationally important seabirds
- Bird flu report spotlights impact of the disease on UK wild birds
- Act now to save migratory birds, scientists say
2022-2016
2022
- 45-year-old seabird highlights impact of avian influenza
- Record summer for ‘hummingbirds’ in UK gardens
- Some Don't Like it Hot
- Swallows have started spending the winter in Britain instead of migrating 6,000 miles to South Africa, according to the British Trust for Ornithology.
- Volunteers provide vital new information on the UK's breeding Tawny Owls
2021
2020
- Scottish Ornithologists’ Club recognised with prestigious award
- It’s official – the Wren is our commonest bird