The Indian Peafowl, will be familiar as an ornamental species, often associated with stately homes, but the free-flying nature and tendency to wander some distance mean that individuals can turn up ...

The Lesser Whitethroat is secretive bird of farmland and reedbed habitats. The distinctive song is a helpful guide to its presence. A warbler with greyish upperparts, white undersides and a large ...

Marsh Tits and Willow Tits probably present one of the more difficult ID challenges in the UK. View our Bird ID video to gain some invaluable tips on key features to tell them apart.

Previously only a rare visitor from North America (where numbers have increased markedly), there is now a small, self-sustaining population of this white goose in Argyll. The Snow Goose occurs in two ...

From donating, joining and fundraising to helping at events, volunteering for surveys, or becoming a corporate member, there are lots of ways you can support us and our work. Get involved in our ...

Each year, thousands of people from all over the UK kindly donate to BTO to help fund our research and monitoring of the UK's bird populations. The data and insight from our work provides crucial ...

What exactly is crop milk, which birds produce it, and why is it so important? Learn more about this unusual food. A very small number of birds, including Woodpigeon, produce 'crop milk', a substance ...

Identifying the two large sawbills, Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser, can be pretty straightforward when confronted with male birds. However, separating the females - or redheads, as they are more ...

Common and Arctic Terns are very similar in appearance and habits - so much so that they are often referred to as 'Commic Terns' when they can't be told apart! However, with practice, it is possible ...

Goss-Custard, J.D., Clark, R.T., Briggs, K.B., Ens, B.J., Exo, K.-M., Smit, C., Beintema, A.J., Caldow, R.W.G., Catt, D.C., Clark, N., Durrell, S.E.A. le V. dit ...

Rehfisch, M.M., Holloway, S.J. & Austin. G.E. 2003. Population estimates of waders on the non-estuarine coasts of the UK and the Isle of Man during the winter of 1997 ...

Atkinson, P.W., Clark, J.A., Delany, S., Diagana, C.H., du Feu, C., Fiedler, W., Fransson, T., Gaulthier-Clerc, M., Grantham, M., Gschweng, M., Hagemeijer, W ...