Support our vital work to help increase and improve raptor monitoring in the UK. The Winter Gull Survey collects information about our wintering gull populations, through the coordinated effort of ...

Breeds in a wide range of open habitats including tundra, steppe, bogs, dunes, moorland, heathland, young plantations and more occasionally in crops. Can be nomadic, with population peaks coinciding ...

The Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme (GSMP) monitors the abundance and breeding success of the UK’s native geese and migratory swans during the non-breeding season. The Goose and Swan Monitoring ...

The tools on this page allow you to explore ringing totals and recovery summaries by area and by species. On other areas of our website, you can also: These totals are of ringing data that have been ...

Being largely nocturnal in their habits, owls face a different set of challenges to many other predatory birds. In addition to their excellent vision, hunting owls also rely on their sense of hearing ...

This year’s Bird Camps were all about adventure, learning, and unforgettable birding moments. But don’t just take our word for it! We’ve handed the blog over to the true experts – the campers ...

The Tawny Owl is a species that favours woodland habitats, but it may also breed in larger rural and suburban gardens. Our most familiar owl, the Tawny Owl is found across Britain but is absent from ...

Breeds in open habitats, such as farmland. Resident and largely sedentary in habits. In excess of 4,000 breeding pairs. Green-listed Bird of Conservation Concern. The Barn Owl is a species of open ...

Use these resources to learn how to identify owls; find out more about their ecology, fascinating behaviour and how to build next boxes for them. The short-eared owl is a ground-nesting species which ...

The Little Owl is a species of open country, favouring lowland habitats such as farmland, parkland and orchards. Introduced from the Continent during the latter part of the 19th century, the species ...

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