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• Breeding Bird Survey celebrates 30 years of citizen science in Wales
• Declining seabirds on a cliff edge

• Welsh Yellowhammers in long-term decline

   

• BTO Bird Camp Bonanza
• Inspired by birds, informed by science: providing the evidence base for policy decisions
• Out in the field
• Volunteering at a bird observatory 

2024

• Modelling population-level impacts of wind farm collision risk on Welsh Red Kites
• Modelling population‐level impacts of wind farm collision risk on Welsh Red Kites (Report)

2023

• BirdTrends 2022

2022

• Curves for Curlew: Identifying Curlew breeding status from GPS tracking data
• Birds of Conservation Concern Wales 4: the population status of birds in Wales
• Assessing drivers of winter abundance change in Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata in England and Wales

2021

• Rapid adaptive modelling for policy support towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Brexit and the livestock sector in Wales
• Wader populations on the UK’s open coast: results of the 2015/16 Non-Estuarine Waterbird Survey (NEWS-III) and a review of population trends
• BirdTrends 2020
• Contrasting long‐term trends in age‐specific survival of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Britain using smoothed estimates of recovery probabilities

2020

• The State of the UK's Birds 2020
• Audit of local studies of breeding Curlew and other waders in Britain and Ireland

2019

• Associations between gamebird releases and general predators

2018

• State of Birds in Wales 2018
• When is enough enough? Effective sampling protocols for estimating the survival rates of seabirds with mark-recapture techniques
• The breeding population of Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands in 2014

2013

• The importance of the United Kingdom for wintering gulls: population estimates and conservation requirements

2010 and earlier

• An examination of reptile and amphibian populations in gardens, the factors influencing garden use and the role of a 'Citizen Science' approach for monitoring their populations within this habitat
• Indexing winter gull numbers in Great Britain using data from the 1953 to 2004 Winter Gull Roost Surveys
• Population decline of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa within the largest colony in Britain and Ireland
• Changes in breeding wader populations on lowland wet grasslands in England and Wales: causes and potential solutions