Mayor Steve Rotheram with children at an environmental project.
£100,000 boost for nature in the Liverpool City Region
Areas across the Liverpool City Region are set to benefit from up to £100,000 to help reverse decades…
BTO: Brand new data on gardens keeps growing
Gardenwatch, one of the most ambitious citizen science projects to take place in the UK, was launched during BBC’s Springwatch 2019. This collaboration between the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), BBC, and the Open University leaves no stone unturned to help find out just how important gardens are for wildlife. This is the first time that such information has been collected on this scale.
BTO: Scientists follow amazing Cuckoos on their journey to Africa
As part of a project to discover what might be driving the decline in UK Cuckoo numbers, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has fitted four of these iconic birds with satellite tags. These tags will enable BTO researchers to follow the Cuckoos as they make their way to the Congo rainforest, where they winter, and back again next spring.
BTO: Britain’s owls need twenty minutes
Evidence suggests that our Tawny Owl population is falling and it might be that we are losing them from our towns and cities. Taking part in the BTO’s Tawny Owl Calling Survey will help make this clearer.
Tawny Owls are very difficult to monitor, as they live their lives during the hours of darkness, so we often hear them rather than see them. We want people to listen for the distinctive ‘hoot’ calls of the males and sharp ‘kee-wick’ of the females. Anyone can take part and the BTO website has a series of Tawny Owl recordings for people to familiarize themselves with the various calls.