Our blog offers specialist insight and unique perspective from a wide range of BTO staff, volunteers and guest writers, giving context and inviting discussion on various aspects of our work. We also have a dedicated Youth blog and Migration blog (migblog) where you can read articles about those specific topics.
Arctic Skua migration: stories from the field
Helen and David Aiton take us through their fieldwork seasons for BTO’s Arctic Skua tracking project.
13.10.2023
The astonishing migration of Scotland’s Arctic Skuas
On World Migratory Bird Day, BTO Senior Research Ecologist Nina O’Hanlon explores the fascinating findings of the Arctic Skua tracking project.
13.10.2023
Learning to lead: stories from the Young Leaders Course 2023
Visit the BTO Youth HubLilia, James and Jasmine spoke to us about their experience of the course, and how it helped them grow as budding conservation leaders. Lilia (she/her), 18“I applied for the BTO Young Leaders Course as the qualities of being a leader and having to confidently assert myself were not ...
26.09.2023
A BTO Bird Camp bonanza
SOC/BTO Scottish Bird CampBuoyed by the success of the first-ever Scottish Bird Camp in 2022, the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC) and BTO were excited to launch Bird Camp 2023, which took place over the weekend of 26–28 May.Once again, we based the camp in East Lothian, and campers began to arrive la ...
24.08.2023
How the BTO Acoustic Pipeline is helping to identify some of Europe’s most poorly-known bat species
A trip to a former Benedictine monastery on Lokrum, a Croatian island near Dubrovnik, provided our bat acoustics specialist Stuart Newson with a unique opportunity: to gather recordings of two cryptic bat species, and develop the capacity of the BTO Acoustic Pipeline to identify them. ...
10.08.2023
