• Is wood warbler nest predation affected by habitat structure?
    Blog post by Paul Bellamy , Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science . As part of an RSPB research programme investigating the causes of wood warbler declines, 434 nests...
  • Understanding changes in Swift breeding success and survival
    Today’s blog is by Tom Finch, Senior Conservation Scientist, on a new paper which teases out the drivers of variation in Swift breeding success and survival Like many other insectivorous birds, Swifts...
  • Another successful year for the UK’s breeding Cranes
    New figures show Cranes continue to recover after going extinct in the UK 400 years ago. In today’s blog Andrew Stanbury, RSPB Conservation Scientist, takes us through their comeback and how conservation...
  • Lost in the woods
    UK Priority Species : Wood Warbler What makes the wood warbler so cool? Wood warblers are revealing birds, divulging their secrets to the patient, quiet watcher. They will allow you to get quite close...
  • Roaring success of UK’s loudest bird
    If a bird can be said to skulk, then the bittern skulks . It hides away in reedbeds, peering out of the rushes before placing its long legs in measured, slow, and careful steps , its amber and brown plumage...