Press releases
Chris the Cuckoo waves goodbye to Britain again
July 2014
Back in 2011, a Cuckoo in Suffolk was fitted with a satellite tag by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)to track his movements...
Birds and Climate Change - A global review of the impact of climate change on birds
June 2014
Climate change is likely to add to the many existing pressures on bird populations...
Cash for Cuckoos
June 2014
Britain’s cuckoos are £300 better off, thanks to support from an initiative to get people out and about in their local area to watch birds...
Good spring for Cornwall's Greenfinches?
June 2014
Despite the fact that they are declining across the country, Cornwall’s Greenfinches seem to have had a very good spring...
The oldest of its kind
June 2014
The oldest known Buzzard in the wild has clocked out at 28 years, 1 month and 11 days, breaking the previous record by nearly three years...
Fifteen winged saviours take to the air
June 2014
In a In a bid to bid to tackle the worrying decline in Cuckoo numbers, 15 satellite-tagged individuals are to take to the air during the next week, and begin transmitting information of their incredible journeys to researchers at the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology)...
Two globe-trotting Cuckoos return to the Broads
May 2014
Having spent the winter 3,000 miles away in the Congo Rainforest, two special Cuckoos have made it safely back to the Norfolk Broads...
Satellite-tagged Cuckoo returns to Scotland for third summer
May 2014
BB the Cuckoo is doing Scotland proud...
To feed or not to feed - that is the question
May 2014
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Garden BirdWatch (GBW) team often get asked during the summer whether, or not, to continue feeding garden birds...
Famous Cuckoo makes it back to the UK against all the odds
April 2014
In May 2011 the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) fitted a satellite tag to a Cuckoo in an attempt to help find answers behind the dramatic decline of this iconic species here in the UK...
A novel approach to monitoring bats
April 2014
A new study, just published in the journal British Wildlife, Newson, S...
Scientists hold their breath for the return of a very special Cuckoo called Chris
April 2014
Having clocked up over 45,000 miles and his tag having sent around 30,000 messages back to scientists in the UK, Chris the cuckoo is set to return to the East Anglian countryside for his fourth successive summer wearing a unique satellite tag...
Garden wildlife springs into action early
April 2014
As the latest results from the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) Garden BirdWatch reveal, much of our garden wildlife has got going extraordinarily early this year...
In a changing climate it's a dog eat dog world
April 2014
New study demonstrates that climate change disrupts natural relationships between species Part II of the IPCC fifth assessment report, published at the end of March, reported that climate change is altering species’ distributions and populations with high confidence...
All of Britain and Ireland’s birds mapped digitally for the first time
April 2014
For the first time ever, over 3,500 maps showing the distribution, range change and abundance for over five hundred different species of bird that have been recorded in Britain and Ireland since 1968 are freely available online...
What a difference a year makes; early nesting in 2014
April 2014
Birds attempting to breed during the spring of 2013 were faced with freezing conditions as March temperatures plummeted way below the national average...
Robo-sandals: National charity unveils GPS-guided footwear for birdwatchers
April 2014
Did you see this story yesterday (1st April 2014)...
Dedicated volunteers count birds for two decades
March 2014
Over 150 people have recorded the birds on their own patch of countryside for twenty years in the name of science...
2013: Topsy-turvy year for garden birds
March 2014
The 2013 annual results for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Garden BirdWatch (GBW) have just been published and reveal an interesting year for birds, with a very cold spring, a poor breeding season and a good autumn berry and seed crop all playing their part...
Last call for winter thrushes
March 2014
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is calling for members of the public to look out for thrushes, in particular those that will be leaving our shores for northern and eastern Europe over the next few weeks, birds such as the Redwing and Fieldfare...
Devon Cuckoo comes back to life
March 2014
A Cuckoo named Tor has come back to life, having been given up for lost in the Congo Rainforest...
Ring-wearing Puffins needed
March 2014
Following the severe storms of the last three months, over 28,000 seabirds have been found dead along the coasts of southwest Europe from Spain to northern Scotland...
British Puffins caught up in Biscay storms
February 2014
The sight of a Puffin, beak full of sandeels, might be a little harder to come by this summer as they struggle to survive the recent storms that have wracked the Bay of Biscay...
Early birds fall on hard times
February 2014
St Valentine’s Day is traditionally the time when birds start to choose their mates, with egg-laying for most resident species commencing in March or April...
Putting up a nest box - one of the best things you can do for bird research
February 2014
Once again Valentine’s Day will see the start of National Nest Box Week, now in its 17th year, the time of year when birds traditionally begin to pair up for the forthcoming breeding season...
Wildlife presenter voted in as President
January 2014
Wildlife presenter Chris Packham has been voted in as the President of one of Britain’s top scientific research organisations...
Nurture the nature in your garden. Call for garden-owners to help save Britain's wildlife
January 2014
BRITAIN’S biggest public-led investigation into the health of native wildlife has begun today (16 January), with the launch of the national Garden Wildlife Health project...
The early bird catches the worm
January 2014
Do you feed your garden birds? Are you willing to get up early in the name of science? If so, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) needs your help on 9th January to determine whether light pollution affects the feeding behaviour of our garden birds on winter mornings...
Where are all the thrushes?
December 2013
Every winter hundreds of thousands of thrushes leave continental Europe to spend the winter months on this side of the North Sea...
