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.
Record summer for ‘hummingbirds’ in UK gardens
Data from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Garden BirdWatch survey, carried out by volunteers across the UK, show a fourfold increase in the number of gardens recording a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, ...
10-08-2022

Some Don't Like it Hot
New research from BTO implicates rising temperatures in the steep decline of the Willow Warbler, one of the UK’s most tuneful harbingers of spring.The study, published in the journal IBIS, shows that ...
11-07-2022

Swallows have started spending the winter in Britain instead of migrating 6,000 miles to South Africa, according to the British ...
The change in behaviour is one of the most remarkable signs yet of the warming world being caused by climate change, according to the BTO’s Chief Executive, Juliet Vickery, “It is indeed ...
08-03-2022

Volunteers provide vital new information on the UK's breeding Tawny Owls
Thanks to the efforts of nearly 10,000 'citizen scientists' we now have a much greater understanding of the UK's breeding Tawny Owls, together with much-needed information on their calling behaviour, ...
01-02-2022

Artificial intelligence discovers rare bat
A passive bat detector, left outside to automatically trigger and record bat calls as they fly over, set up in a garden in West Sussex as part of the Chichester Bat Recording Project, has recorded the ...
23-08-2021
