BTO garden birdwatch

BTO Garden BirdWatch is a year-round project that gathers important information on how different species of birds use gardens and how this use changes over time. Gardens are an important habitat for many wild birds, providing a useful refuge for those affected by changes in the management of our countryside.

Some 16,000 participants currently take part in Garden BirdWatch and send in simple weekly records of the bird species using their gardens. This information is either submitted on paper count forms or by using Garden BirdWatch Online. Currently there are forty participating gardens in Pembrokeshire, distribution as shown on the map left (but note that some 1km squares have more than one participating garden).


This year the garden birdwatch and nest recording schemes are combining to ask more people to record what is nesting in their gardens. This information will feed into the BTO atlas, and hopefully get some people more interested in long-term nest monitoring. More details here

All new joiners will receive a free copy of an exclusive paperback version of the acclaimed 'Garden Birds and Wildlife' (normally £14.99).