WOS Photo competition 2024 – winners and report
Our fifth year of the WOS photo competition generated a record 197 entries: 133 in the Main section, 45 of Flocks, but sadly only 19 Young Photographers, though there were six entries from under 10-year-olds. Encouragingly, almost a third came from female photographers. 101 different species were photographed and the most popular were unsurprisingly photos […]
The 2024 Annual Conference – a record attendance and a great day
The 2024 conference took place at Aberystwyth University and broke records for attendance, with a vibrant buzz through the whole day.
The President’s Medal – a new award to complement the Lifetime Achievement Award
The WOS President’s Medal will be awarded for a particularly significant contribution to ornithology in Wales. It may be given to an individual or to a group, such as a bird club or ringing group. It differs from the WOS Lifetime Achievement Award in that it is awarded for one particular contribution to ornithology in Wales, usually over a shorter period than the Lifetime Achievement Award.
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.