Birdwatchers across the UK are being encouraged to spend an hour counting garden birds as the annual survey returns from 29-31 January.

It is common for birders to keep track of the birds they’ve seen (or want to see) with lists. This goes for presidential birdwatchers, as well! Read on to see what birds were noted by Theodore Rooseve...

Calling all birdwatchers, twitchers and nature lovers! Join us for a conversation celebrating the wonderful birdlife of Ontario and beyond. Jackie Morris’s stunningly beautiful artwork in The Book of ...

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A daily bird species identification game quiz for birders, birdwatchers, bird lovers, and bird enthusiasts. Similar to wordle, birdie is a daily birding ID quiz based on small crops of each bird and s...

A daily bird species identification game quiz for birders, birdwatchers, bird lovers, and bird enthusiasts. Similar to wordle, birdie is a daily birding ID quiz based on small crops of each bird and s...

World Migratory Bird Day 2026 highlights how birdwatchers help scientists track declining species and protect migratory birds through citizen science.

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Fly to the Azores and prepare to be amazed by the beauty of these nine islands, chosen by so many birds as a sanctuary or temporary stopover.

Conservation isn’t only the work of scientists and decision makers. Across the world, a vast network of passionate volunteers collect data on wildlife, weather, water quality, and historical documents. In ornithology, this usually means recording bird observations – a practice known as “citizen science”. The importance of citizen science in conservation Tirelessly looking for and counting birds, birdwatchers from all around the world create datasets so large that they would be impossible for professional scientists to collect alone. Long-term datasets allow scientists to detect trends in bird population size, measure the impacts of climate change, and identify other threats. This provides valuable information on changes in migration timing, habitat degradation, and invasive species – data that indirectly feed into the EU Birds Directive reporting and the Red List, and that shapes where conservation funding and protection efforts are focused. This huge amount of information is collected through science platforms such as observation.org, eBird, BirdTrack, and iNaturalist, as well as identification tools like Merlin Bird ID. They give everyone access to an extensive database of bird photos, sounds, and other identification tools, extremely useful for spotting and recognizing birds. Observation.org alone logs 35 million records per year, with contributions from more...