BTO Bird Atlas
Bird Atlas 2007-11 is a project organised by The British Trust for Ornithology. It is a four-year winter and breeding season atlas project covering the whole of the UK and Ireland. In the summer of 2007, and in parallel to the BTO project, fieldwork started for the third Bedfordshire Breeding Bird Atlas , and is due to finish in the summer of 2011.
Details of the projects:
the National BTO Bird Atlas project can be found here: www.bto.org/birdatlas/
the Local Bedfordshire Bird Atlas project can be found here: www.atlas.bedsbirdclub.org.uk/
The BTO Winter Atlas is now in its third season which will run from from Nov 2009 to Feb 2010. Nigel Willits is the Bedfordshire BTO rep, and he will be using this page to keep us updated on the status of the BTO atlas work in the county.
A summary of the latest BTO Bird Atlas Winter Records for Bedfordshire in .pdf document format, for the 2007/8 & 2008/9 winter period surveys.
Nigel comments -
"These are the records submitted to the atlas for the periods Nov 2007 to Feb 2008 and Nov 2008 to Feb 2009. The records are for the whole of each 10km square and may include some from outside the Bedfordshire county boundary. The 3rd winter season of fieldwork runs from Nov 2009 to Feb 2010. If you can fill any of the gaps below, please submit as Roving Records on http://www.bto.org/birdatlas/ or paper forms are available from the organiser. This chart is not suitable as a record submission form."
Regional Organiser: Nigel Willits 01234-771948,
Please take a look at the summary, and see if you can add any data to help achieve a more complete picture of the status of our wintering birds.
Last Updated: November 2009