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Marsh Tits and Willow Tits probably present one of the more difficult ID challenges in the UK. View our Bird ID video to gain some invaluable tips on key features to tell them apart.
With its warm buff head and neck, black cap, grey back and deep chestnut shoulder patch, the adult Purple Heron is a smart bird, but one that favours the dense vegetation, such as reedbeds, of shallow ...
Explore how a particular species is faring in different countries, and download data and graphs with our interactive Trends Explorer. Search our index of the regularly occurring UK bird species listed ...
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Each year, thousands of people from all over the UK kindly donate to BTO to help fund our research and monitoring of the UK's bird populations. The data and insight from our work provides crucial ...
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Batten, L.A. 1978. The seasonal distribution of recoveries and causes of Blackbird mortality. Bird Study 25: 32. doi:10.1080/00063657809476571 ...
Identifying the two large sawbills, Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser, can be pretty straightforward when confronted with male birds. However, separating the females - or redheads, as they are more ...
Marchant, J.H. 1991. British Ornithologists' Union. Records Committee: Fifteenth Report (April 1991). Ibis 133: 441. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1991.tb04594.x ...
Appleton, G.F., Adams, S.Y., Clark, J.A., Simons, J.R. & Peach, W.J. 1997. Report on bird ringing in Britain and Ireland for 1995. Ringing & Migration 18: 158.
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