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Looking out for birds? Share your interest in birds with others by being part of the BTO. Volunteer surveyors, members and staff work in partnership to provide unbiased information about birds and their habitats. Join or volunteer today and make birds count!
Five Cuckoos for Scotland
Cuckoos breeding in Scotland have faired better than their counter-parts in England, so we are keen to know how their migration differs. As a result, the BTO Cuckoo-tracking team have been busy recently, satellite-tagging 5 new males near Loch Katrine in Scotland. Some are as yet, nameless - can you help give them a name? Look out for more news on these new birds soon - Keep track of the project.
BTO at Chelsea
Come and meet members of BTO staff at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week. Our friends at Gardman have invited us onto their stand and together we will be chatting about attracting and recording garden birds.
What are your views on the Volunteer?
We recently published our new magazine called Volunteer (download PDF, 8mb) which was the first BTO magazine to be mailed to all 60,000 of our supporters. We'd like to know what you thought of the magazine. Feedback on the magazine will be extremely useful to us in planning future magazines and other literature. Please take a few moments to complete the online survey and just by participating you could win a box set of the BBC's fabulous "Secret Life of Birds" DVDs.
Nightingale Survey 2012 continues
Due to the exceptional spring which has delayed migrants, Nightingales are arriving even now. We would urge people to continue to report records through out the rest of May. The nocturnal element (midnight to 3am) to the Nightingale Survey commenced on 18th May, watch our Bird ID on Night Singers to prepare.
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