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Postcode Lottery players help the Big Garden Birdwatch soar
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (476+ words) Find out how Postcode Lottery players helped people in urban areas take part in the Big Garden Birdwatch 2025 and 2026. The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch is the world's largest garden wildlife survey. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people take one…...
Our latest guidance on what and when to feed garden birds: Feed Safely, Feed Seasonally
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (987+ words) To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds. We all want to help birds and make our gardens or outdoor spaces a place where all wildlife can thrive....
Gannets flock back to Wales as the seabird season gets underway.
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (560+ words) A familiar spectacle is returning to the waters off the Pembrokeshire coast as thousands of Gannets make their way back to Grassholm, one of Wales" most important seabird islands. After spending the winter months in southern European and African waters,…...
Breathing Life Back into the Fens: Restoring Peatlands for Nature and Climate
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (472+ words) Lapwing, Redshank, and Oystercatcher will benefit from this land transformation thanks to the team at RSPB Lakenheath Fen near Brandon in Suffolk. In the UK, at least 80 per cent of our peatlands have been lost or damaged. But on the…...
Join our Early Bird Challenge
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (202+ words) Be an Early Bird this April by walking or running 73km and raising vital funds to protect 73 endangered UK bird species. All while basking in birdsong and spring skies. We're'now at risk of losing 73 bird species in the UK. Birds like…...
Reconnect a precious Welsh landscape
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (630+ words) Help protect 96 hectares of rare habitat and reconnect a vital landscape for threatened wildlife. Nestled deep in the heart of mid-Wales lies the RSPB's Gwenffrwd Dinas nature reserve " a landscape of rare Celtic rainforests, windswept uplands and tumbling valleys, where…...
Wales welcomes long-awaited Seabird Conservation Strategy
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (297+ words) Find out why the strategy could be a critical lifeline for Wales" seabirds. Following a seven-year long campaign, the Seabird Conservation Strategy for Wales, published by the Welsh Government this week, could be a critical lifeline for Wales" seabirds. Here…...
How to count penguins
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (675+ words) RSPB penguinologist Antje Steinfurth heads to some remote islands to count endangered Northern Rockhoppers. Tracking the size and whereabouts of bird populations is essential for protecting species under threat. For long-lived seabirds, like penguins, early detection of population changes helps…...
On the front-line with our Species Volunteer Network
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (963+ words) Find out how volunteers are helping to save the UK's most vulnerable species. Across the UK, RSPB volunteers are helping to save some of our most vulnerable species. Many are part of the Species Volunteer Network, a people-powered movement of…...