Understanding patterns of species diversity is crucial for ecological research and conservation, and this understanding may be improved by studying patterns in the two components of species diversity, ...

At this talk for the North Wales RSPB local group, Gethin will highlight the international importance of Wales' wetlands for some of our wintering birds.Focusing primarly of wildfowl and waders, this ...

Join Gethin in this small-group event to put your ID skills into conservation action. We'll begin with an overview of identification features of particular waterbirds, before showing you how you can ...

Overview On 16 January 2014, Animal Conservation established a new initiative asking conservation practitioners and policymakers to tell us what information they need from scientists to help them make ...

For many people, an interest in birds and the outdoor begins in the garden. We'd like to encourage this, and for the first time ever we at BTO Cymru will running this one-off session focusing on our ...

Collision risk models (CRMs) form a key part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for wind farms. It is 40 years since the first CRM was published. We take a critical approach to ...

Autumn and winter are wonderful times to get out to your local waterbody and enjoy the many ducks and geese that migrate here from colder climes. In these interactive online workshops, Gethin and ...

If you like waterbirds, and would like to aid in their conservation by counting them for just a few hours a year, then this is the session for you. In winter - to the delight of our birdwatching ...

Despite Wales' small size, our estuaries, beaches and marshes are incredibly important for a special group of birds - the waders. In this course, Gethin and Steve will show you why waders are a ...

The Blackbirds in Gardens project will help us understand how Blackbirds use gardens, and the potential effects of the Usutu virus on their population in the UK. Update: The 2025 spring survey season ...

This study assessed the use of glue-mounted GPS tags to track Goosanders in two Scottish river catchments with contrasting management regimes – the Tweed, where licensed shooting occurs, and the Forth ...

A full voluntary transition from lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition by 2025 only resulted in a slight, non-significant downward trend in the proportion of Pheasants killed using lead shot over the ...