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• Category: About Us
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• Category: Achievement Awards
  • Last few days to nominate a Welsh birder for the WOS Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2024 – Andy King
  • 2025 – Heather Coats
  • 2025 – Geoff Gibbs
  • 2023 – John Wilson
  • 2023 – Bob Tallack
  • 2021 – Al Venables
  • 2021 – Bob Haycock MBE
  • 2019 – Tony Cross
  • 2018 – Bob Howells
  • 2017 – Jerry Lewis
  • 2016 – Steve Roberts
  • 2015 – Dr Stephanie Tyler
  • 2014 – David Saunders MBE
  • 2014 – Peter Davis MBE
  • 2013 – Graham Williams
  • 2013 – Roger Lovegrove
  • 2013 – John Lawton Roberts
  • 2012 – Mike Shrubb
  • 2012 – Graham Rees
  • 2012 – Peter Hope-Jones
• Category: Awards
  • Lifetime Achievement Awards
  • Student Research Awards
• Category: Bird Recording
  • Recording Rare Birds
  • Bird recording areas of Wales
  • Record Your Sightings
  • Overview of Birds in Wales
• Category: Competition News
  • WOS Photo Competition 2025 – winners and report
  • The 2026 WOS photo competition
• Category: Conference-Current & Future
  • 2025: Another very enjoyable and successful Conference, encouraging everyone to make sure their bird records are all reported
• Category: Conference-Previous
  • The 2024 Annual Conference – a record attendance and a great day
  • National conference for 2021
  • National conference for 2021 – Programme
  • 30th Anniversary – National conference 2019
• Category: Counties
  • Maesyfed/Radnor
  • Penfro/Pembroke
  • Trefaldwyn/Montgomery
  • Meirionnydd
  • Gwent
  • Gwyr/Gower
  • Fflint/Flint
  • Morgannwg Dwyrain/East Glamorgan
  • Dynbych/Denbigh
  • Ceredigion
  • Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen
  • Caernarfon
  • Brycheiniog/Brecon
  • Môn/Anglesey
• Category: current photo competition
  • The 2025 WOS calendar – a few copies remain and can be ordered for posting before it sells out!!
  • About the WOS photo competition
• Category: Events-Current & Future
• Category: Events-Previous
  • WOS Photo competition 2024 – winners and report
  • WOS Photo competition 2023 – winners and report
  • The 2023 WOS photo competition is now open – and the first entries have already been submitted!
• Category: Grants & Awards
  • The President’s Medal – a new award to complement the Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Announcing our President’s Special Award
  • Young Conservationist Bursaries
  • Community Grants
  • Project Grants
• Category: Home Page Featured Events
  • An excellent and thought-provoking 2022 Annual Conference – this BTO Cymru blog post shows what you missed if you weren’t there!
  • Other Events
• Category: Milvus
  • We are delighted to say that we have recruited a new editor for ‘Milvus’ – our main journal
  • Milvus Privacy Statement
  • Milvus Submissions
  • Milvus Editorial Team
• Category: Milvus Article – Child Page
  • Crimes against raptors in Wales 1990‐2019
• Category: Milvus Article – Parent Page
  • The 2025 edition of Milvus has been published and sent to all members
• Category: Milvus-Editor
  • Rachel Taylor
  • Jon Green
  • Julian Hughes
• Category: Monthly Bird Reports
  • November/December 2023: ‘Storm’ Wigeon on Anglesey and Waxwings galore
  • September & October 2023 – the most extraordinary influx of extreme rarities for Welsh birders
  • ‘The most remarkable week in Welsh birding’
  • August 2023 – seabirds centre stage again
  • June 2023 – a good mixture of scarcities in both north and south Wales
  • July 2023 – an impressive month for seabirds and seawatching
  • May 2023 – a Song Sparrow on Bardsey and a good range of late summer migrants
  • March & April 2023 round-up, including a UK first
  • February 2023 – the second Baikal Teal of the year and the very first signs of Spring
  • January 2023 – Wales’s first Baikal Teal in Powys
  • December 2022 – good for ducks!
  • November 2022 – wheatears, gulls and ducks the highlights
  • October 2022 – Tennessee Warbler, two Long-billed Dowitchers and lots more!
  • September 2022 – an excellent month for both waders and passerines
  • August 2022 round-up: shearwaters and petrels on pelagics and good warblers on land but avian flu hits Gannets on Ramsey and Grassholm
  • July 2022 – shearwaters and terns
  • June 2022 – a White-throated Sparrow in a garden bird bath!
  • April and May 2022
  • March 2022 Round-up
  • 2021 – highlights of the year
  • December 2021 – Pacific Diver and lonely Swallows end the year
  • October 2021 – a smattering of rarities in a rather slow autumn
  • August 2021 – a fairly typical autumn migration month
  • July 2021 – second records of Elegant Tern and Pacific Golden Plover for Wales
  • June 2021 – Pacific Swift: a first for Wales
  • May 2021 – the wettest May on record in Wales and one of the coldest
  • April 2021 – a very cold dry month, with a trickle of summer migrants
  • March 2021 – Wally the Walrus, winter visitors in summer plumage and harbingers of spring
  • February 2021 – local patch birding, winter long stayers and first signs of spring
  • January 2021 – local patch lockdown birding
  • December 2020 – a quiet end to the year, with long stayers but little in the way of new birds
  • November 2020 – photogenic Snow Buntings and a new King Eider
  • October 2020 – renewed lockdowns take us back to patch birding
  • September 2020 – Taiga Bean Goose, Red-throated Pipit and a sprinkling of lesser rarities
  • August 2020 – hundreds of colour-ringed gulls, Citrine Wagtails, a possible Brown Booby and an early Isabelline Wheatear
  • July 2020 – Rosy Starlings ignore COVID lockdown!
  • June 2020 – Rosy Starlings ignore COVID lockdown!
  • May 2020 – another lockdown month
  • April 2020 – COVID lockdown
  • March 2020 – observing the COVID-19 restrictions
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
• Category: New Birds of Wales
  • The Birds of Wales – some minor corrections and 50% off till 31st July
  • The Birds of Wales
  • What we’ll publish and what it will cost
• Category: News
  • Updated advice from the RSPB and BTO on feeding wild birds
  • Gamebird releases and wild birds – WOS’s position
  • The seventh WOS photo competition is now starting to receive entries – and there’s a new section
  • New Atlas partnership forges roadmap for bird conservation
  • The Welsh Bird Report for 2024 has been published and sent to all members
  • The Spring 2026 Newsletter has been emailed to all members
  • The Welsh bird list 2026
  • Annual report on scarce and rare birds in Wales for 2024 is now published
  • The 2026 WOS Calendar is now available by post – here’s how to buy
  • WOS’ response to the recent Senedd debated petition calling on the installation of Swift bricks in all new buildings in Wales.
  • The Autumn 2025 Newsletter is being enjoyed by members
  • From November, WOS will need a new Secretary
  • The SFS (Sustainable Farming Scheme) will be introduced across Wales in 2026 – act now to help ensure that it’s properly funded
  • Mallard ducklings – a great little citizen science project for everyone
  • The Spring 2025 Newsletter is winging its way to WOS members
  • WOS Review of the Year 2024
  • The Welsh List 2026
  • Can you help WOS?
  • Winter 2024/25 Newsletter sent to members and available on the website – another bumper edition
  • Iolo Williams says: ‘One of the most significant wildlife appeals in Wales in recent years. Please give generously if you can’.
  • The December 2024 deadline for grant applications has now closed and we’ve received a number of applications
  • Annual General Meeting 2024
  • The ravages of avian influenza see Gannet added to the Red List for the first time
  • A bumper Autumn Newsletter has been sent to all WOS members and is now on the website
  • Please do your bit for Swift Awareness Week by signing and supporting the Swift Brick petition
  • Last week to nominate a worthy recipient for a Lifetime Achievement Award
  • WOS membership survey
  • Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion bird reports now available on this website
  • Saving Swifts and Supporting Local Biodiversity
  • An urgent message from Iolo Williams, WOS President – If you do only one thing for Welsh wildlife in 2024 . . . please do this.
  • Milvus 2.1 is finally published on the website for members, to join Scarce and rare birds in Wales 2022 and the Welsh Bird Report 2022
  • David Saunders MBE
  • The 2023 State of Nature report for Wales – 18% of species are threatened with extinction
  • A magical time at the Skomer Young Birders’ week
  • Support the RSPB Cymru campaign to make the Sustainable Farming Scheme work for farmers, people and nature
  • Welsh Ornithological Society Annual General Meeting 2023
  • Pembrokeshire Bird Conference
  • Skomer Young Birders Week
  • Roger Lovegrove OBE – 1935-2023
  • JAC has almost certainly perished near Llangollen
  • Bardsey University week in August – places are filling fast
  • Please sign the petition to make Swift bricks compulsory in new housing
  • Welsh Bird Report for 2021 now published online for members only
  • Can you help survey for breeding Woodcock this summer?
  • We’ve revamped WOS grants and student research awards and we want applications!
  • The Welsh Kite Trust needs more fieldworkers to monitor Red Kite breeding populations
  • Sign up for your 2023 Rook survey tetrads
  • A very happy 2023 to all birders in Wales – here are some titbits to get you going
  • Report on scarce and rare birds in Wales for 2021 now published for WOS members only
  • Our Pied Flycatchers may be more at risk on migration and in their wintering sites than on their breeding territories
  • Pembrokeshire Birds conference with the new WOS Rook pin badge for sale!
  • ‘Milvus’ (Vol 1: No 1) has now been posted to WOS members
  • WOS Annual General Meeting 2022
  • 2019 & 2020 North-East Wales bird report finally published – download for free
  • June & July on Bardsey – a busy couple of months with autumn passage starting in July
  • July 2022 round-up
  • Where to watch birds in Wales – 5th edition pre-publication offer
  • WOS urgently needs a new Treasurer – please volunteer
  • June 2022 round-up
  • Great results coming from Manx Shearwater tracking project on Bardsey
  • WOS at the Welsh Countryside Fair
  • The Eurasian African migration atlas – a fantastic new online resource
  • Monthly round-up is back – apologies for the interruption
  • Thursday 2nd June – what a red-letter day on Bardsey
  • Bob Haycock is finally presented with his Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Good progress with the Rook survey – but where are all the Rooks?
  • The monthly round-up of sightings is now back on the website
  • Plans are advanced to build a tidal lagoon between Mostyn and Point of Ayr, Flintshire
  • 2020 Welsh Bird Report has now been published
  • Voted one of the best ten bird books of 2021!
  • WOS Photo Competition 2021 – winners and report
  • Welcome to the new WOS website!
  • Tony Cross awarded BTO Jubilee medal
  • Our birds are in trouble – three species added to BoCC Red List and seven to Amber
  • WOS Student Research Award 2021 winner – Luke Beckett
  • Bardsey – off the island for the winter
  • Iolo Williams presents the First Minister for Wales with a copy of The Birds of Wales
  • Changes to our Small Grant Scheme – two application windows from December 2021
  • Young birder membership of WOS now available for only £5 per year
  • An Elegant visitor to Anglesey – Cemlyn’s thirteenth species of tern!
  • ‘Mr Strumble’ – gone but not forgotten
  • Three small grants awarded for 2021 research
  • WOS Photo competition 2020 – winners and report
  • Thirteen Bee-eaters on the Llyn!
  • Greenland White-fronted Geese finally protected in Wales
  • Sustainable Farming and Wildlife
• Category: Photo Competition
  • WOS Photo competition 2022 – winners and report
• Category: Projects
  • Rook Survey
  • BTO, RSPB & Affiliate Club Surveys
  • Curlews
• Category: Publications
  • Welsh Bird List
  • The Birds of Wales
  • E-Newsletters
  • Scarce and Rare birds in Wales
  • Welsh Bird Report
  • Milvus
  • Category: The Birds of Wales
    • There are now 60 species on the Wales Red List of birds of conservation concern – and Gannet has been added
• Category: Surveys
  • Category: Curlews
    • Curlew in Wales, the 2024 breeding season and beyond
    • Get involved with Curlews and World Curlew Day
    • Gylfinir Cymru
    • Wales Curlew Action Plan
    • Breeding season Curlew records needed for 2022
    • Curlew – our poster bird for 2021 and more about World Curlew Day
    • A Welsh Curlew photo gallery
    • Please look out for and report any sightings of colour-ringed Curlew
  • Category: Rook Surveys
• Category: Uncategorised
  • Information and documents for the 2025 Annual General Meeting
  • Glyn Roberts
  • 2025 Annual Conference
  • Entries in for the 2024 WOS photo competition need to be submitted by 30th September
  • Clwyd Bird Recording Group
  • Alun Llwyd
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• Category: Welsh Bird Report
• Category: Welsh Birds Rarities Committee
  • Robin Sandham
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• Category: WOS Trustees
  • Category: Co-Opted Members of Council
    • Anya Wicikowski
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    • Steve Stansfield
    • Gethin Jenkins-Jones
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  • Category: Officers
    • Alison Noble
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    • Gwenan Williams
    • Anne Brenchley
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  • Category: Other Trustees
    • Josh Pedley
    • Malcolm Smith
    • Siôn Emlyn Davies
    • Simon Boyes

Milvus Contributions

• Milvus Volume 4, Issue 3 (2025) Complete
• Milvus Volume 4, Issue 2 (2025) Complete
• Milvus Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) Complete
• Milvus Volume 3, Issue 3 (2024) Complete
• Milvus Volume 3, Issue 2 (2024) Complete
• Milvus Volume 3, Issue 1 (2024) Complete
• Welsh Bird Report 2021 v3
• Loxia vocal types in South Wales 2018-2022
• Birds of Conservation Concern Wales 4: the population status of birds in Wales
• Scarce and rare birds in Wales 2021
• Response to R. Sage
• Curlew in Montgomeryshire
• Cardiff’s roof-nesting gulls
• Released pheasants and invertebrates – a discussion of Devlin et al. (2021)
• Observations of behaviours in males of a socially monogamous migrant passerine, Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), when attempting to mate outside of their social pair bond
• Movements of Jay (Garrulus glandarius) in Wales in Autumn 2021
• Introduction
• Long‐term agression towards humans in a Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
• Estimating the sizes of breeding populations of birds in Wales
• Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve: a review of the first 20 years
• The Ring‐necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) in Wales: a preliminary review of records from 1975 to 2017
• The prehistoric and historic bird fauna of Wales: evidence from archaeology, literature and place names
• Annual surveillance of summer Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) populations in the Milford Haven Waterway and Daugleddau Estuary, Pembrokeshire
• Systematic List of Accepted Records in 2019
• Continental Cormorants in Wales
• Obituary: Peter Hope Jones, 1935‐2020
• Montagu’s Harriers in Pembrokeshire and an historic photograph
• A Pied Flycatcher – one of many
• Preliminary observations of the impact of nonnative Pheasants, Phasianus colchicus, on the abundance and diversity of invertebrates in upland pasture in mid‐Wales
• Blackcaps wintering in Wales 1999/2000 – 2020/21
• Eagles in Wales: a review of ornithological literature, county avifaunas 1889‐2000 and Welsh place names
• Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta responses to predator activity at Newport Wetland Nature Reserve
• Llysdinam’s contribution to ornithology in Mid‐ Wales
• The population status of the Willow Tit in Ceredigion
• Features of the nests of Buzzards Buteo buteo in north‐east Wales, 1978‐2011
• Crimes against raptors in Wales 1990‐2019
• Obituary – A tribute to Graham Rees

Milvus Volumes

• Milvus Volume 4, Issue 3 (2025)
• Milvus Volume 4, Issue 2 (2025)
• Milvus Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)
• Milvus Volume 3, Issue 1 (2024)
• Milvus Volume 3, Issue 2 (2024): Scarce & Rare Birds in Wales 2023
• Milvus Volume 3, Issue 3 (2024): Welsh Bird Report 2023
• Milvus Volume 2 Issue 3 (2023): Welsh Bird Report 2022
• Milvus Volume 2 Issue 2 (2023): Scarce & Rare Birds in Wales 2022
• Milvus Volume 2 Issue 1 (2023)
• Milvus Volume 1 Issue 3 (2022): Welsh Bird Report 2021
• Milvus Volume 1 Issue 2 (2022): Scarce and rare birds in Wales
• Milvus Volume 1 Issue 1 (2022)
• Birds in Wales: Vol. 18 No. 1 (2021)
• Birds in Wales Vol. 17 No. 1 (2020)
• Vol. 17 No. 2 (2020): Scarce and rare birds in Wales 2019

Article Type

• Forum
• Main Contribution
• Reviews
• Short Communication

Associated Volumes

• milvus1_1
• milvus1_2
• milvus1_3
• milvus2_3
• milvus3_1
• milvus3_2
• milvus3_3
• milvus4_1
• milvus4_2
• milvus4_3
• onlinefirst
• srbw-vol17
• vol17
• vol18