Every year the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), on behalf of a cluster of conservation bodies – the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, the RSPB and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust – organizes the Wetland Bird Survey, which is the principal scheme for monitoring the UK’s wintering waterbird populations. The scheme […]

In a post on this website dated 19 September 2018, we reported on what was at the time only the third record of a ringed Curlew moving between UK and Poland. The bird had been colour-ringed on the Usk estuary in south Wales in January 2016 and photographed on its […]