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Bennett, S. & Weston, E. 2025. Growth of seaweed species on GLS logger attachments. Seabird 37: doi:10.61350/sbj.37.3 The authors thank the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for facilitating the ...
Join Gethin in this small-group event to put your ID skills into conservation action. We'll begin with an overview of identification features of particular waterbirds, before showing you how you can ...
At this talk for the North Wales RSPB local group, Gethin will highlight the international importance of Wales' wetlands for some of our wintering birds.Focusing primarly of wildfowl and waders, this ...
Climate change and the alteration of land-use and land-cover (LULC) on a global scale presents a notable threat to biodiversity, with a particular impact on long-distance migratory birds. Nonetheless, ...
For many people, an interest in birds and the outdoor begins in the garden. We'd like to encourage this, and for the first time ever we at BTO Cymru will running this one-off session focusing on our ...
If you like waterbirds, and would like to aid in their conservation by counting them for just a few hours a year, then this is the session for you. In winter - to the delight of our birdwatching ...
Thanks to a growing number of schemes and improvements in recording and reporting technology, biological recording is now happening in more places and more regularly than ever before. Interested ...
Despite Wales' small size, our estuaries, beaches and marshes are incredibly important for a special group of birds - the waders. In this course, Gethin and Steve will show you why waders are a ...
Waterbirds in the UK presents the results of the annual Wetland Bird Survey. Since 2022, Waterbirds in the UK has also been the primary reporting mechanism for the Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme.
Over the past couple of years, our bat expert Stuart Newson has delved into the intricate world of European bats, meticulously analysing some of their understudied vocalisations: feeding buzzes and ...
Why can’t Cuckoos change their clocks? Previous research looking at patterns across many species has shown that, in general, the timing of departure from the wintering grounds is the major determinant ...
Following a meeting of more than 100 experts, a report into the continuing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI or ‘bird flu’) outbreak has been published by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ...