Throughout the year we send out press releases to individuals and organisations who have signed up to receive these. This page holds details of the press releases posted over the past two years. For press and media enquiries, please email press@bto.org.
Heathland Birds Survey new for 2025
The UK’s heathlands are incredibly special places. These, and other similar open habitats, support a wide variety of rare plants, insects, birds, and animals. Now, for the first time in two decades, ...
17-01-2025
Saving birds through sharing science
In a pioneering new move, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is making decades of breeding bird data freely available to the wider conservation and research community. When it comes to the UK’s ...
13-12-2024
Committed volunteers and conservationists win prestigious awards
The outstanding contributions of six individuals and one organisation were celebrated at the British Trust for Ornithology’s annual awards ceremony in October. The event at London’s Mall Galleries ...
18-10-2024
Young birders take the prize at Spurn Migfest
The 2024 Martin Garner Spurn Young Birders have been put through their paces, testing their general birding and identification at the Spurn Migration Festival, and the winners have been named. The ...
10-10-2024
Scotland’s seabird pirates in peril
A new study led by the British Trust for Ornithology in Scotland (BTO Scotland) has unveiled the migration routes and wintering grounds of one of Scotland’s rarest and most endangered seabirds – the ...
04-09-2024
