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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

April 2024

  • A house sparrows perched on a branch

    House sparrow tops Big Garden Birdwatch charts for 21st year in a row

    Blue tits, starlings, wood pigeons and blackbirds next most sighted in RSPB survey involving 600,000 participants

January 2024

  • A starling sitting in some wild grass

    The Observer view on Britain’s Big Garden Birdwatch: take pleasure in counting birds, but don’t ignore the threats they face

  • Waxwing perched on a bare branch

    Spot the punk rockers: hope for waxwing boost in annual UK bird count

April 2023

  • A flock of house sparrows on a hedge

    Sparrows still most spotted bird in UK gardens but population is declining

    Number of house sparrows spotted has dropped by nearly 60% since 1979, according to RSPB annual survey

January 2023

  • A nightingale in a tree.

    Sunak’s warm words on nature sound good, but can they save our last nightingales and swifts?

    Beccy Speight
  • The great spotted woodpecker

    Woodpeckers and wagtails: how readers enjoyed the big birdwatch

April 2022

  • Greenfinch on a lichen-covered branch in Shropshire.

    Annual bird count in UK gardens raises hopes for greenfinch

    RSPB scientists say small increase in sightings points to first signs of recovery of beleaguered species

April 2021

  • Goldfinch coming in to land

    16 of Britain’s top 20 garden birds have declined in number, annual survey finds

    RSPB’s 2021 Big Garden Birdwatch finds sparrow still most common species, while starlings, greenfinch and chaffinch struggle

April 2020

  • A house sparrow

    House sparrows flocking back to British gardens, survey shows

    RSPB’s Big Garden Watch finds numbers rising, along with coal tits, wrens and long-tailed tits

April 2019

  • Greenfinch in flight

    Country diary
    Country diary: greenfinches' insistent calls break a Roman reverie

  • Long-tailed tit

    Cold weather takes toll on smaller species in UK birdwatch

January 2019

  • A coal tit on a garden feeder

    Bye bye blackbird?: RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch marks 40 years

    World’s biggest wildlife citizen survey maps changing fortunes of Britain’s bird populations

June 2018

  • Common toad (Bufo bufo) in a pond, with toad spawn and frogspawn, Coldharbour, Surrey, England, UK, March. 2020VISION Book Plate.

    UK gardeners urged to build ponds as sightings of frogs and toads dry up

    Sightings of toads have fallen by nearly a third and frogs by 17% since 2014, RSPB survey finds

March 2018

  • European Goldfinch [Carduelis carduelis] on bird feeder filled with sunflower hearts. Snowing. January. West Sussex, UK<br>European Goldfinch [Carduelis carduelis] on bird feeder filled with sunflower hearts. Snowing. January. West Sussex, UK, 18 January 2013

    Big win for small birds as feeders help finch and tit species to thrive

    The mild winter was followed by a good breeding season, boosting garden sightings of finches and tits

January 2018

  • Blue tit and Chaffinch on twig

    Small birds expected to bounce back in annual UK count

    RSPB says successful breeding season and kind weather could see many species faring well in this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch

January 2017

  • Two blue tits feed in a winter garden

    Big Garden Birdwatch: cold snap may bring unusual migrant birds to gardens

    Participants in the world’s biggest wildlife survey this weekend could see droves of charismatic waxwings arriving from Scandinavia, says RSPB

March 2016

  • Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus), pair perched on a branch covered with moss and lichen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany<br>Country Diary on 22 February 2016 by Julie Armstrong : Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus), pair perched on a branch covered with moss and lichen

    Mild UK winter boosts sightings of smaller garden birds

    Long-tailed tit returns to the top 10 most commonly seen garden birds for the first time in seven years, results from the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch show

January 2016

  • House sparrow Passer domesticus Scotland UK

    Mild winter means lower numbers for annual garden bird count, RSPB warns

    Members of the British public taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend can expect to see lower numbers and fewer exotic species after the wettest, warmest December on record
  • Wren on post

    Country diary
    Every tiny wren counts as Birdwatch begins

    Country Diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire This annual watch gives pause to think who is sharing our garden, and to look more intently
  • chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), male sitting on a twig in snow flurry, United Kingdom, Scotland, Cairngorms National Park, Glenfeshie<br>EBK453 chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), male sitting on a twig in snow flurry, United Kingdom, Scotland, Cairngorms National Park, Glenfeshie

    Quiz: how well do you know your UK garden birds?

    Ahead of this weekend’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, can you identify these common garden bird species?
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