Tag: BTO
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Wood Pigeons, the British Trust for Ornithology News
Bird of the day, the first I saw this morning, is the Wood Pigeon. Actually they are the first I see most mornings since they perch on the wires across the road outside my office window. There is always a pair here and they are often seen in a group of three which I find…
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The British Trust for Ornithology Conference 2026. Part II
Sam Langlois gave an overview of seabird monitoring and tracking. In the past we simply have not known what goes on when the birds are out at sea but now with telemetry in the form of GPS tags, we have data to inform marine spatial planning, species ecology and in particular Marine Protected Areas. We…
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The British Trust for Ornithology Conference 2026. Part I
In most respects this was as rewarding as it was last year. It was tiring. The lovely lady I was next to said that she also felt exhausted having taken in so much information. The venue was the Mercure Hotel in Northampton. I understand the need for a fairly central location but this was not…
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Bird Table – the BTO magazine for Garden Birdwatchers, BTO News & more
I picked up a year’s worth (2024) of the British Trust for Ornithology’s quarterly, generously illustrated magazine at the recent BTO conference in Manchester. As I said in my report on the conference, they will presumably be changing the name in short order since we are all now being discouraged from using bird tables at…
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Bird conference
British Trust for Ornithology, Annual Conference, Midland Hotel, Manchester, 1st March 2025 My first such conference (the only others I have attended have been about rare books and manuscripts), which tied in with visiting and staying with my younger daughter who is studying at Liverpool University, a long overdue but somewhat less than fruitful look…
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Seabird ecology, seabird decline – and a Wren and a House Martin
This was an online course run by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). I have hugely enjoyed all of their bird ID courses and this one had the advantage of being entirely free. It was a serious and sobering couple of hours. Firstly though, in the garden two days ago I saw, for the first…
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BTO News Summer 2024
The image of an avocet above is taken from Animal Wild, one of those rather satisfying reflection shots. The latest from the British Trust for Ornithology features an Arctic Skua on the front cover and there is much within about the success and importance of GPS tracking of tagged birds (as well as Cuckoos and…