Cambridgeshire Bird Club

15/05/2026

Vote for Britain's favourite butterfly and help increase conservation awareness.

Flashy, adventurous or fantastically freaky. Britain has 60 native butterflies, each with their own story. Explore what makes them unique.

08/05/2026

Happy 100th Sir David. An inspiration to all of us. Thank you!

20/03/2026

A worthy winner as 2025 Photo of the Year. Voted by the club's membership. Grey Heron (plus Pike) at RSBP Fowlmere. Well done Jan Michalec.

08/03/2026

 The Club AGM will be held on 13 March at 7.30pm at the Wilkinson Room, St. John’s Church, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8RN
 The Agenda for the 2026 AGM, the Minutes of the 2025 AGM and the Financial Statement for 2025 can all be viewed on our website.
 The Club AGM is followed by the talk by the BTO's Mike Toms, who will bring us up to date with the latest research and thinking behind feeding garden birds. Much of his work is geared towards public engagement in ‘Citizen Science’, delivering quality research through networks of keen amateurs.

08/03/2026

 DON'T FORGET TO VOTE for the Photo of the Year - only four days left to do it!

Voting is now open Of the 26 candidate-pictures taken by Cambridgeshire Bird Club members in 2025, one is destined to become Photo of the Year. Email your vote to [email protected] by 10 March. With ten points in total to use, vote for up to three photos. Use the letters to show where you

08/02/2026

February 13th 7.30pm. Dusty Gedge. A look at two London-based studies on Green roofs and Black Redstart. Join Zoom from 7.15pm using the following link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81096707227?pwd=EgMvrYa5zwlF0SmN22NErRVKOSRbDl.1
Meeting ID: 810 9670 7227, Passcode: 822474

Dusty has been a birdwatcher all his life and has broad interest in nature whether it be wild bees, butterflies or wildflowers. Birds led to his career in green infrastructure. Currently the President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and founder of Livingroofs.org, Dusty Gedge is a recognised authority, designer and consultant on green roofs and green infrastructure.

08/02/2026

Club members are invited to 'Habitats of Europe' in the David Attenborough building on 11 February. The event is being organised by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative as part of their "In conversation with..." series, and will be hosted by BirdLife International. Dale Forbes (co-author) will explore some of the amazing diversity that Europe's habitats have to offer, while Iain Campbell (co-author) will focus on the science underpinning BirdLife's habitats work, and Andrew Plumptre (Head of KBA secretariate) will pick up on the conservation implications.

Buy Habitats of Europe (9780691245171): A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists: NHBS - Dale Forbes, Iain D Campbell, Pete Morris, Princeton University Press

19/01/2026

Have you registered? I hope you are taking part.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?

10/01/2026

Friday January 16th - 7.30pm. Stanislas Wroza. Identifying migratory birds by sound. Stanislas is a leading researcher in bioacoustics and is author of the recently published Identifying migratory birds by sound. The Zoom link will be sent to members before the day of the meeting. Please send a message if you would like a Zoom link

Identify migratory birds with this book, containing detailed text on flight and contact calls, annotated sonograms and QR codes to the calls themselves. Every s…

14/12/2025