Annual General Meeting 2024
The 2024 WOS Annual General Meeting was held as a virtual meeting online on 9th November.
The 2025 WOS calendar – a few copies remain and can be ordered for posting before it sells out!!
Thirteen of the best pictures from the 2024 photo competition are featured in the 2025 WOS calendar. It’s a limited edition which has nearly sold out – order yours now by contacting web@birdsin.wales.
The ravages of avian influenza see Gannet added to the Red List for the first time
The loss of half of the Welsh breeding population of Gannets sees them added
to Wales’ Red List.
A bumper Autumn Newsletter has been sent to all WOS members and is now on the website
If you want to know what’s going on, then join WOS to get the e-newsletter immediately – it’s worth the annual membership fee on its own!
Please do your bit for Swift Awareness Week by signing and supporting the Swift Brick petition
Please help our struggling Swifts by signing a new petition asking Welsh Government to incorporate swift bricks into all new developments in Wales. Ben Stammers (North Wales Wildlife Trust) will be speaking about Swift conservation projects in Wales at the WOS Conference in November.
Last week to nominate a worthy recipient for a Lifetime Achievement Award
We’re bringing quite a few dates and deadlines forward this year and this is the case with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The award to Andy King in 2024 was one of several applications last year and it looks as if we have more than one application this year, but there’s still time for more. We […]
WOS membership survey
Thank you to all the WOS members who completed our survey questionnaire. There have been some really insightful comments on what WOS should be doing and these were really useful in informing the annual review of our five-year strategy (the current one runs up until 2026) at the July Council meeting.
Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion bird reports now available on this website
Several of our Affiliates make their annual county bird reports available on the WOS website. Recent reports include the 2023 Pembrokeshire Bird Report and the 2021, 2022 and 2023 Ceredigion reports.
The 2026 WOS photo competition
There is one important change from the 2025 competition: the mobile phone category did not prove popular or generate outstanding pictures and it is being replaced by a Birds and People category. The Main section – open to everyone, with first prize of a week’s accommodation on Bardsey Island (travel to Ynys Enlli not included). […]
Saving Swifts and Supporting Local Biodiversity
Glamorgan Birds is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting where Edward Mayer will present ‘Saving Swifts and Supporting Local Biodiversity’.