Flowers of the Brecks Part 2: Wetland, Woodland & Farmland

Climatic and soil conditions in the Brecks are such that a particularly notable assemblage of plants is found locally.

Animals of the Brecks: Mammals, Reptiles & Amphibians

Breckland hosts a broad range of mammal, reptile and amphibian species which, because of their often secretive nature, can be difficult to track down without some local knowledge.

Assessing factors associated with changes in the numbers of birds visiting gardens in winter: Are predators partly to blame?

Foraging ecology mediates response to ecological mismatch during migratory stopover

Road exposure and the detectability of birds in field surveys

Wind‐associated detours promote seasonal migratory connectivity in a flapping flying long‐distance avian migrant

State of Nature report 2019

The current state of nature

An overview of how the country’s wildlife is faring, looking back over nearly 50 years of monitoring to see how nature has changed.

The influence of different aspects of grouse moorland management on nontarget bird assemblages

Contrasting population trends of Common Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across Europe

Avian vulnerability to wind farm collision through the year: insights from Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Larus fuscus) tracked from multiple breeding colonies

New BTO research has explored how vulnerable Lesser Black-backed Gulls breeding in Britain are to collisions with wind turbines whilst on migration and during the winter months, as well as during the breeding season.

One-third of English breeding bird species show evidence of population responses to climatic variables over 50 years

Population growth rates affected by climatic variables

Research by BTO and Natural England, suggests that climate change has had a detectable impact on a sizeable proportion of England’s avifauna over the last 50 years.

A world informed by science: the impact of BTO in 2012–18

An assessment of the impact of BTO science over the period 2012–2018, this report was part of the evidence provided to an independent expert review panel.

Bird responses to housing development in intensively managed agricultural landscapes

Like in many countries, Britain faces the challenge of housing a growing population, but urban expansion to address this can lead to locally high rates of biodiversity loss, along with fragmentatio

The environmental predictors of spatio-temporal variation in the breeding phenology of a passerine bird

Warmer springs have seen many of our birds breeding earlier, but scientists still do not know how they actually decide when to start building nests and laying eggs.

Quantifying nutrient inputs by gulls to a fluctuating lake, aided by movement ecology methods

Increasing crop heterogeneity enhances multitrophic diversity across agricultural regions

Avian malaria-mediated population decline of a widespread iconic bird species

Avian malaria linked to decline in London's House Sparrows

The once ubiquitous House Sparrow is now absent from many urban areas. New research suggests that malarial parasites may be involved in this decline.

Breeding bird assemblages supported by developing upland shrub woodland are influenced by micro-climate and habitat structure

Agri-environment effects on birds in Wales: Tir Gofal benefited woodland and hedgerow species

Associations between gamebird releases and general predators

Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges for commercial shoots may be boosting numbers of the avian predators and scavengers.