BTO NI undertakes a wide range of monitoring and research work across Northern Ireland.
The NI Officer and voluntary Regional Network lead public events and encourage participation by volunteers in our core surveys. The NI Senior Research Ecologist leads our professional scientific research work and seabird work. BTO NI is supported by the wider BTO staff team.
Featured work
Ripple NI
BTO NI's Sorrel Lyall writes about her journey into birding and our community-based nature engagement project in Northern Ireland, Ripple NI.

Introducing Puffins to Copeland
BTO NI has been working with Copeland Bird Observatory and Natural Copeland to introduce Puffins as a breeding species on Lighthouse Island.

Nest boxes for Black Guillemots
We have been collaborating on a project to build and deploy 80 new Black Guillemot nest boxes in the local authority areas of North Down and Ards.
