The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2025 will take place over three days from the 24th to the 26th January.
It’s the world’s biggest wildlife survey, and your chance to help the RSPB discover more about the birds that visit UK gardens and plan their valuable conservation work for the year ahead.
Transfrom your garden into a mini “wildlife reserve” to attract a variety of bird species who will visit to eat, drink, bathe, and nest.
As the days get shorter and cooler, summer migrants will depart our shores, and resident birds will be joined by winter visitors from the far north and east.
They come for the mild climate and abundance of food, before returning to their breeding grounds in spring. Our wetlands in particular become alive again as we welcome back ducks, geese, swans, and wading birds.
When the temperature drops, gardens may attract some typical country birds who come in search of food and shelter. And some garden favourites like tits, robins, blackbirds, and starlings may be visitors from Eastern Europe rather than resident birds.
Seen a bird and not sure what it is?
Try our interactive bird identifier to help you identify the birds you’ve seen
Simply search by size, colour, and other identifying features and we’ll do the hard work for you!
Over 250 detailed identification guides to British birds including garden birds, birds of prey, farmland birds, seabirds, and waterfowl
