Read the annual report of the Seabird Monitoring Programme, a BTO / JNCC / RSPB publication about the abundance and productivity of breeding seabird species in Britain and Ireland from 1986 to 2023.

This is a one-day conference in Inverness organised by BTO Scotland, the SOC and the SOC's Highland branch. Join us for a range of fascinating talks, designed to be interesting and relevant to both ...

Improve your confidence identifying the gulls that are commonly found in the UK in this two-part online course. COST: The programme of two weekly online sessions and supported self-study exercises ...

After reviewing the self-study exercise, we'll turn our attention to the skills needed to identify larger gulls, including how to age them. Although we will mention how these techniques can be used to ...

This event will comprise of a ~2km* walk around Beckenham Place Park, identifying potential wintering UK species and spending equal times in open areas, woodland, and at the swimming lake. Attendees ...

We'll start by exploring the key elements of raptor identification using a range of interactive activities, then introduce two helpful 'reference species'. The main species we will cover in this ...

This report presents the latest seabird population trends in breeding abundance and productivity using data from the Seabird Monitoring Programme (SMP). The report documents changes in the abundance ...

We have received a number of complaints regarding the involvement of a ringer holding a BTO permit in a finch-trapping initiative being run by the Maltese government. Under this initiative large ...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective tools for acoustic classification tasks such as species identification. Large datasets of labelled recordings are required to develop CNN classifiers ...