Surveyors wanted! 📢 We’re looking for bird surveyors with some knowledge of plants for part-time winter farmland surveys in East Anglia, the East Yorkshire/Lincs/Notts area and Oxfordshire, starting this month! Please contact Gavin via [email protected] for more details.

It will be interesting to see if this is the same across the country and for other Arctic breeding species. Please be sure to enter any age assessments of Brent Geese (or any other migratory goose or swan species) into GSMP Online or as Age Ratios on your WeBS Counts

⚠️ Advance warning that from 5pm Friday 22nd to 5pm Monday 25th November, BTO’s website and apps for surveys will be offline for essential updates. This includes BirdTrack, Breeding Bird Surveys, BTO Garden BirdWatch and Wetland Bird Survey. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

49 thousand Pink-feet geese left the roost this morning at the Holkham National Nature Reserve, this is 50% of the Norfolk population and approximately one sixth of the global population

Job alerts! 📢 We’re looking for a BirdTrack Organiser and a Birds in Greenspaces Engagement Officer to join our team. 🐦 Find out more and apply ➡️ bto.org/jobs #ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology

Ever dreamt about working at one of the UK's premier Bird Observatories? Now you can! We're looking for a seasonal Assistant Warden to join our team here at Spurn from 1st April 2025. More information about this exciting and rewarding opportunity here - buff.ly/4gjCclB

We're looking for volunteers to help in the final Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) on 19 January! Find out more and how to sign up on our website ➡️ bto.org/wings #Ornithology

Excited to be leading the next International Swan Census again for the Iceland Whooper population! Ensuring coordination across Britain, Ireland & Iceland. Working with BTO, BirdWatch Ireland & Iceland. Stay tuned over the coming months on how to get involved! #Ornithology

While in Kaeng Krachan last week, it would have been rude not to twitch the Silver Oriole that had taken up residence there. The road up to it was hard going, but it was well worth the effort, and with bonus White-fronted Scops Owl and White-crowned Hornbill on the way up!

A fairly quiet #WeBS_UK count at Livermere and Ampton Water this morning, other than 450 noisy Greylags, 54 Shelduck and the first Oystercatcher of the spring back locally

A Brent Goose down the Nunnery Lakes found by Nick Moran this morning was only my second record here, first one in March 2022 (also found by Nick), a very scarce bird in the Brecks

Not sure why I have randomly woken up with the theme tune to the Beverley Hillbillies rattling around in my head! youtu.be/NwzaxUF0k18?fe…

📢Job alert! We’ve got a great opportunity for a part-time Seabird Monitoring Support Officer to join the BTO Surveys Team!🔭📈 ℹ️For more information and to apply: bto.org/jobs 🗓️ Deadline for applications: Thursday 24th July 2025. #Seabirds #CitizenScience

Since our first record as recently as 2022, and with only 6 records since, it was nice to find a flock of 12 Cattle Egrets this morning on the Nunnery Lakes, though I'm sure this scene will be a regular feature in years to come!

A flock of 12 Cattle Egrets dropped in to the BTO reserve in Norfolk today! They are rapidly increasing, with over 800 counted in WeBS in 2023/24 —explore where at app.bto.org/webs-reporting… 📷by Neil Calbrade

Top find by Nick Moran this morning, this juvenile Purple Heron on the Nunnery Lakes reserve was the first record for the site, at one point sat on the same island as a Cattle Egret! Well worth the run back down the track having just walked past the lake it was favouring

One week left to apply to join us in our creative and rewarding work in the surveys team, this role involves coordinating the collection of data and reporting on our world class seabird colonies here in the UK #Ornithology

I'm excited to be leading the International Swan Census again in January 2026 for the Iceland Whoopers! Check out 👇🏻 to get involved & visit the vacant site map. Every record counts to understanding the bigger picture. #Monitoring

Certainly not going to win any awards, but this rubbish record shot of a Corn Bunting down the Nunnery Lakes this morning, which was a welcome patch tick on an otherwise gloomy, damp morning

A pretty depressing day counting sick & dead Whooper Swans. Avian influenza is within the population. Please report all dead birds for possible collection & testing. In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 this is Defra UK gov.uk/guidance/repor… Reporting to BirdTrack also helps with monitoring.