Items Tagged 'Birds'

• A bird in the hand: why bird ringing is still so important.
• Nature fund’s £156k award to protect threatened waders
• New maps reveal hotspots of seabird activity during breeding season
• New study: are teen seabirds safe?
• Puffin numbers stable despite last summer’s wash-out as sufficient pufflings successfully hatch on Farne Islands
• If we want to bring back farmland birds, restore a farmland pond, new research shows Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
• Keeping Cats Indoors Could Blunt Adverse Effects to Wildlife
• Put down your shears and protect wildlife
• Results Day: Farmers unite to deliver a record-breaking bird count
• Farmers urged to wade into bird conservation
• National Garden Bird Survey reaches 25 years
• Celebrate nature’s symphony online
• Lack of insects in cities limits breeding success of urban birds
• Results show ‘small win’ for Turtle Doves in National Park, but more needed to prevent extinction
• 30-year anniversary of landmark release of red kites in the Chiltern Hills
• Debate needed on the potential culling of crows and foxes to protect Europe's declining ground-nesting birds
• Morlais tidal energy project risks future of Anglesey’s marine wildlife
• Rare birds raise chicks in Suffolk for first time in over 300 years
• ‘High hopes’ for Arctic terns dashed as lockdown and extreme weather hampers conservation work
• National Park to address decline of moorland waders in new Management Plan
• Climate change threatens breeding birds
• New report: birds provide hopeful message on targets to save nature
• Wetland birds among Arctic animals changing behaviour because of climate change’s rapid transformation of region, according to new data archive
• New general licences for the control of wild birds
• Species more likely to die out with rapid climate change
• Extension of seabird haven to benefit 15,000 birds
• New NatureScot report provides insights into rare hen harriers from millions of nest camera images
• Blue Tits missing from our gardens following spring heatwave
• New report reveals good news for rare breeding birds
• Keeping a watchful eye on our waterbirds - the Wetland Bird Survey
• Europe's breeding birds get long-overdue stocktake
• Nature reserve sees best breeding season for rare little terns for 25 years
• Wintering waterbirds on the increase
• Barn owl study finds improved breeding performance
• Rare hen harrier now reported on half of grouse moors
• Investigating impact of human activity on birds
• Scottish crane population hits record high
• Birds living in natural habits can help inform captive care
• Birds can ‘read’ the Earth’s magnetic signature well enough to get back on course
• Storm Darcy forces Bewick’s swans to make rare migratory U-turn
• Cairngorms Capercaillie Project creates new jobs to help the environment and the economy
• New partnership formed to save England’s threatened curlews
• Migration routes of one of Britain’s largest ducks revealed for the first time, but much still remains a mystery
• Sandcastle homes unveiled for sand martins
• 1 million take part in record-breaking RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
• 2020: an amazing year for wildlife on RSPB reserves
• Record breaking Cuckoo returns to the UK
• State of the UK Barn Owl Population 2020
• Latest UK seabird statistics published
• Saving eggs from airfields is bringing a curlew boom in the east of England
• New lek data reveals challenges for capercaillie
• ‘First time in over a century’ sea eagles return to Loch Lomond
• Eurasian Curlews released on the Sandringham Estate
• High tech tags to give insight into lives of golden eagles in Cairngorms National Park
• New research sheds light on crimes against birds of prey in Wales
• Seabird numbers decline by almost 50%
• Peatland restoration brings back rare birds after twenty years
• Aim to Sustain launches ‘zero tolerance’ toolkits
• Future looking rosy for roseate terns with record breeding year
• Climate change might make winter bird migration a thing of the past
• Conservation work boosts UK’s rarest wetland birds
• New report reveals huge declines in Europe’s birds
• Action plan launched to save the curlews in Wales
• New UK Red List for birds: more than one in four species in serious trouble
• Birds, bees, and butterflies suffer as Brexit farming promises broken today
• 2021 corncrake numbers continue worrying downward trend
• A quiet Christmas? How Britain & Ireland’s breeding birds fared in 2021
• Urgent action needed to address impacts of Avian Influenza. Outbreak of bird disease is worst on record
• Volunteers provide vital new information on the UK's breeding Tawny Owls
• Local community gets behind campaign to help New Forest’s rare birds
• Measures to save capercaillie outlined
• Mixed fortunes for wintering waterbirds
• Swallows have started spending the winter in Britain instead of migrating 6,000 miles to South Africa, according to
• Latest RSPB report shows how giving nature space can help boost nesting success of a number of the UK’s birds
• Birds of prey still struggling in the Peak District, despite protection
• Male osprey LM12 arrives at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve in record time
• New offshore windfarms must do more to help protect Kittiwakes and other seabirds
• Northern England a stronghold for black grouse despite successive years of poor breeding
• Act swiftly! Public asked to help endangered high-flying birds
• Britain’s loudest bird makes roaring recovery
• White-tailed eagles bring tourism boost to Mull
• RSPB NI: Punctual Puffins Land Back on Rathlin
• New study offers hope that conservation can help nature adapt to climate change
• RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2022 – A golden year for Scottish finches
• Live footage of white-tailed eagle hatching shown at RSPB Scotland Abernethy nature reserve
• Collision hotspots for migrating birds revealed in new study
• Protected areas don’t always boost biodiversity
• Be aware on beaches to protect our Ringed Plover!
• First Osprey breeding attempt in Southern Britain for 200 years
• Dartford warblers make impressive comeback as they reach highest ever numbers on RSPB nature reserves
• New UK Government targets could mean less wildlife for future generations
• How mud pies could provide a lifeline for birds as 9 day heatwave spreads across the UK
• Watch raptor chicks hatching on live webcams across the UK
• Published - Government’s proposed new restrictions on use of lead ammunition over all environments in Britain
• Flower power! Birds take “wildlife-friendly planting” to the next level as they nest in garden plant pots
• 2022 Big Farmland Bird Count: 26 red-listed species sighted as land managers help build picture of the state of farmland birds
• Peregrine Falcon Chick Hatches at St Albans Cathedral
• Capercaillie conservation in the spotlight for CNPA Board
• Hampshire redshank’s epic journey to Wales helps scientists understand habits of amber-list species
• UK turtle dove survey warns of low numbers, but hope is on the horizon
• Latest Breeding Bird Survey results published
• Critically endangered black-tailed godwits thrown lifeline in the Fens
• Farne Islands to close to visitors due to impact of Avian Influenza on internationally important seabird colonies
• Ospreys and the dangers of plastic
• Farmers help save critically endangered curlews in Severn and Avon Vale meadows
• The Seabird Monitoring Programme is changing
• Swans sacrifice rest to squabble
• Avian flu task force announced
• Iconic white-tailed eagles celebrate silver anniversary with 25th chick
• Offshore wind partnership report identifies ornithological knowledge needs
• Scientists envisage climate change will severely impact bird communities by 2080
• National Trust records most successful year for Hen Harrier breeding in the Peak District for over a decade
• Smart technology aids research into a nationally important seabird colony
• Albatrosses from space: wildlife detectives needed!
• Bumper year for breeding wading birds at coastal site in Suffolk
• National survey results reveal capercaillie numbers at critically low levels
• Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control
• No show for UK’s rarest bird of prey
• Corncrake number declines continue - Only 824 calling males recorded in 2022
• England’s treasured island seabird populations to be protected with new government funding
• Plastic ingestion widespread in Welsh seabird, study suggests
• Bird of prey killing at ‘significantly high level in England’
• BASC responds to RSPB Birdcrime report
• UK protected sites deliver far-reaching benefits for birds, say landmark new studies
• Birds increase in urban areas
• New wetland habitat thriving on Buckinghamshire’s River Thame
• UK now a winter destination for Mediterranean birds
• Birds bounce back when farms devote 10% of their land to nature-friendly measures
• UK’s tallest bird flourishes for another year
• Sussex researchers find pesticide use is linked to garden bird decline
• Urban birds prefer native trees
• Swan populations grow 30 times faster in nature reserves
• Successful reunion of breeding ospreys at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve
• The Wildlife Trusts and RHS call on gardeners to bring their lawns to life
• Plastic diet could be causing seabird chicks to shrink
• Stone-curlew: Wide-eyed birds are making a triumphant comeback across English grasslands
• Britain’s rare breeding birds' recording scheme celebrates 50 years
• Tune in as breeding season begins on Dorset Wildlife Trust’s barn owl webcam
• Operation EASTER launched for 2023 – stopping egg thieves and egg collectors
• East coast wetlands added to UK’s list of potential World Heritage sites
• Significant Scottish report on avian flu released today
• 2023 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count results highlight the conservation work done by thousands of land managers
• Bird flu outbreak spreads across West African migratory route
• lllegal killing is major cause of death in Hen Harriers
• Peregrine Falcon Chicks Hatch at St Albans Cathedral
• Fears grow around new wave of Avian Influenza as disease kills thousands of inland gulls
• Study finds increased use of pesticides and fertiliser is driving bird population declines across UK and Europe
• Ponies, pigs and poo: four-legged conservationists help Nightjar numbers hit record high across RSPB reserves
• Latest Breeding Bird Survey results
• RSPB demands immediate action to help struggling seabirds following marine heatwave off UK coast
• Positive signs for capercaillie conservation
• Man-made materials are widespread in birds’ nests
• Beak shape can predict nest material use in the world’s birds, study finds
• Devastating news for Arctic terns as suspected bird-flu outbreak wipes out a quarter of this year’s chicks at Long Nanny
• First white-tailed eagle in 240 years born in England
• Goldeneye breeding success at Muir of Dinnet
• Urban great tits have paler plumage than their forest-living relatives
• Smitten Bittern breed in Derbyshire for first time on record
• The RSPB and Ella’s Kitchen join forces to protect birds, bees and bugs
• Capercaillie faces extinction despite conservation efforts to reverse decline
• Avian influenza wreaks havoc on wild seabird colonies at six National Trust sites
• Jackdaws switch friends to gain food – but stick with family
• Butterflies, bats and birds among rare species set to benefit from new funding announced
• 141 hen harrier chicks fledge as encouraging population growth recorded
• Landmark report shows UK wildlife’s devastating decline
• Experts call for urgent action to save Welsh nature as new report reveals devastating decline in species
• Researchers help to highlight the true scale of UK’s nature loss
• Montrose’s pink-footed geese arrive early this autumn
• Project Godwit Action Plan sets the priorities for the next decade of endangered Black-tailed Godwit conservation
• New Research mapping Seabird Migration Routes Identifies Six Major Bird ‘Super Highways’
• Latest results from the Rare Breeding Birds Panel
• New records chart remarkable lives
• AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs
• Warming climate and storms see Bewick's make latest arrival since 1965
• Giving the gift of hope: How an army of farmers and volunteers are helping to save rare Turtle Doves
• Future of 200 migratory bird species put at risk by cyclones and droughts
• Major UN report on climate change and migratory species published
• New study shows White-tailed Eagles in Scotland do not rely on lambs for food during the breeding season
• Record-breaking breeding season for striking Pied Flycatchers at a number of RSPB nature reserves
• Breeding Woodcock Survey participation breaks all previous records
• Stepping up efforts to save Scotland's critically endangered chough
• Blue tit population booms with moths on the menu – study
• Duck the stress this World Wetlands Day, bring a friend for free at WWT sites
• Mixed fortunes for UK’s herons and egrets
• New study shows role of bird flu in widespread declines of UK seabirds
• Love birds welcome National Nest Box Week
• Protecting endangered birds at St Mary’s Lands
• OEP Launches Investigations into Special Protection Areas for Wild Birds
• Hertfordshire Reedbed Conservation is a Booming Success
• Sand martins check in for summer
• Conservationists celebrate “booming brilliant” year for UK’s loudest bird
• Hen Harrier survey results 2023: Numbers improve, but much more to be done
• New hope for Puffins returning to UK shores following Sandeel fishing closure
• Stop, yellowhammer time!
• Rare birds shake their tail feathers in flamboyant mating dance on MOD firing range
• People urged to watch out for threatened waders
• New island habitats to support threatened water birds at the Welsh Harp Brent Reservoir
• Much-loved songbird threatened by mosquito-borne virus
• No evidence that England’s new ‘biodiversity boost’ planning policy will help birds or butterflies
• Islay Airport creates safe landing zone for Little Terns
• If you go down to the woods tonight…
• Thousands of birds and fish threatened by mining for clean energy transition
• Award-winning conservationists celebrate as dream to return red-billed chough to the South East reaches new heights
• Swift lovers rejoice as citizen-science project reaches milestone of over 100,000 records
• Unusual plumage variation in birds not so black and white
• Highland black grouse numbers on rise thanks to habitat restoration
• Calstock flood risk cut and new habitat created
• Emergency plan launched to boost capercaillie numbers in Scotland
• UN Report: Insect Population Decline Threatens Migratory Birds
• Four UK shorebirds moved to IUCN Red List following latest review
• Corncrake numbers soar on Canna
• Rare breeding birds continue to colonise the UK
• Volunteers given Lifetime Achievement Awards for more than four decades’ combined work for wildlife
• Birds of a feather - restoring habitats for seabirds
• New publication indicates devastating extinction of the Slender-Billed Curlew
• Breeding Success and New Hope for Rare Roseate Terns
• Hertfordshire's Only Gull Roost Provides Vital Sanctuary for Gulls in Trouble
• Bird mortality rates rising due to pet treatment chemicals found in nests
• Solar farms managed for nature can boost bird numbers and biodiversity
• The changing chorus: Study shows how movements and memories influence birdsong evolution
• The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch Results 2025
• Virus continues to threaten favourite UK garden bird
• Seabird numbers in Scotland continue to fall
• Good news for one of Orkney’s most iconic birds
• New nesting tower gives swifts and house martins a lifeline
• The silence of the swans: new report highlights concern for much-loved birds
• Cuckoos clock up the miles on migration
• 500 bird species face extinction within the next century
• A win for farmers, bees and a threatened bird
• Toxic lead ammunition banned to protect Britain’s countryside
• Wetlands charity leads first UK trial to reverse dramatic loss of British willow tit
• Dark day for seabirds as Berwick Bank mega windfarm granted consent
• Record number of wild white-tailed eagle chicks hatched in England
• Canvey Wick: the Essex oasis home to more than 3,200 species
• Black grouse breed in the North York Moors after re-introduction
• Wake-up call as new data reveals dramatic declines for England’s farmland birds
• Arctic seals threatened by climate change, birds decline globally – IUCN Red List
• Citizen science finds key garden features could help sparrows