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25 April 2013The Birdfair/RSPB Research Fund for Endangered Birds
15 April 2013RSPB Rotary Ditcher
9 April 2013Northern Ireland Red Kites
26 March 2013Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project
22 March 2013Mid Parrett Wet Farmland Project
11 March 2013EU LIFE+ Project - Securing the future of the stone-curlew in the UK
26 February 2013East Midlands Woodland Biodiversity Project
7 February 2013Meres and Mosses Landscape Partnership
20 November 2012Cornwall Farming and Birds Project
20 November 2012The Cirl Bunting Project
20 November 2012Cornwall Chough Project
20 November 2012North Wessex Farmland Bird Project
26 October 2012Assessing the effectiveness of habitat creation as compensation for development projects
25 October 2012Future of the Atlantic Marine Environment (FAME)
15 October 2012Bowland Wader Project
12 October 2012Pagham Harbour and Medmerry
25 September 2012Tracking gannets from Bempton Cliffs
12 September 2012Cirl bunting reintroduction
10 September 2012Source to Sea
4 September 2012Halting Environmental Loss Project
8 August 2012Tayside Wader Survey
7 August 2012Romney Marsh Farmland Bird Project
6 August 2012North East England Farmland Birds Advisory Project
6 August 2012Lakes High Fells Upland Advisory Project
1 August 2012Diagnosing the causes of ring ouzel declines
20 July 2012Saving the spoon-billed sandpiper
20 July 2012Futurescapes Monitoring Programme
16 July 2012Yellowhammer Recovery Project
3 July 2012Can agri-environment schemes halt and reverse corn bunting declines in eastern Scotland?
12 June 2012Montserrat programme
18 May 2012The UK Priority Species Indicator Initiative, charting the changing status of priority species across nature
15 May 2012National Ring Ouzel survey
15 May 2012Forest-to-bog restoration: comparing methods and evaluating effectiveness
10 May 2012South Downs Farmland Bird Initiative
9 May 2012The effects of climate change on dotterels
7 May 2012Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)
4 May 2012Upland Woodland Expansion
26 April 2012Caithness Wetlands and Waders Initiative
24 April 2012Dramatic declines of redshank breeding on saltmarshes
18 April 2012Ayrshire Farmland Wader Project
17 April 2012Skye Crofting and Corncrake Partnership
17 April 2012Strathspey Wetlands and Waders Initiative
17 April 2012Capercaillie Biodiversity Action Plan
13 April 2012The role of protected areas in facilitating colonisation of the UK by new breeding species.
13 April 2012Climate Change and European Important Bird Areas
13 April 2012Using an ecosystem service assessment toolkit at UK conservation sites
13 April 2012Testing trial crops for Hebridean corn buntings
30 March 2012Clyde Valley Wader Initiative
30 March 2012Conserving Scottish Machair LIFE+ Project
27 March 2012Identifying the drivers of the Wood Warbler population decline in the UK
26 March 2012The ecology of breeding Common Scoters
23 March 2012Corn bunting solution testing
20 March 2012Diagnosing the causes of population decline in the critically endangered St Helena Wirebird
19 March 2012EU LIFE+ Farmland Bird Project
16 March 2012Wessex stone-curlew project
5 March 2012Modified management of agricultural grassland to promote in-field structural heterogeneity, invertebrates and bird populations in pastoral landscapes
5 March 2012Diagnosing the cause of the decline of the lesser spotted woodpecker
29 February 2012Eastern England Stone-curlew Recovery Project
28 February 2012The Great Crane Project
3 February 2012Annual Bittern monitoring
19 January 2012Field cricket reintroduction
20 December 2011Turtle dove monitoring
8 December 2011Short-haired bumblebee reintroduction
29 November 2011Northeast England Farmland Bird Initiative (FBI)
11 November 2011Farmland Bird Friendly Zone
11 November 2011Habitat selection by Northern Bald Ibis on their Syrian breeding grounds
11 November 2011Scientific support to the research and monitoring department of the Gola Forest Programme
8 November 2011Chough Targeting Programme
27 October 2011Testing novel management techniques for Caledonian pinewoods: cattle, mowing, and fire.
27 October 2011Lapwing Landscapes
13 October 2011Grampian Wader & Wetland Initiative
4 October 2011Determining the causes of whimbrel declines in Shetland
22 September 2011Population Census of Merlin in the UK
12 September 2011Durness Corncrake and Great Yellow Bumblebee Recovery Area and the SRDP
12 September 2011Hope Farm
9 September 2011Restoring active blanket bog in the Berwyn and Migneint Special Areas of Conservation in Wales
9 September 2011North Pennines Lapwing Recovery Project
8 September 2011The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS)
8 September 2011Reintroducing the great bustard to southern England
16 August 2011East Scotland Sea Eagles (ESSE)
15 July 2011The Colourful Coast Project
11 July 2011Cumbria Wetlands Project
4 July 2011Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire Farmland Bird Project
4 July 2011Lake District Breeding Wader Project
20 June 2011Hiraethog Wader Project
23 May 2011Island restoration in the Azores
12 May 2011Sustainable Forestry Practice and Biodiversity Impacts
15 April 2011Hiraethog Lapwing Project
12 April 2011Birds of prey in Bowland
16 March 2011Aberdeen Red Kites
7 March 2011England Twite Recovery Project
10 February 2011Lapwing Trial Management Project, Northern Ireland
17 January 2011Food for snipe: have reductions in food availability led to the decline of breeding snipe?
10 December 2010Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)
26 November 2010The RSPB's Ecological Services
8 November 2010Tackling Climate Change-Related Threats to an Important Coastal SPA in Eastern England (TaCTICS)
1 November 2010Investigating the causes of curlew declines
12 October 2010Saving our migrant birds: new research work in West Africa on Afro-Palearctic migrants
28 September 2010RSPB advice and support for farmers across the UK (funded by EU LIFE+)
16 September 2010Saving the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing, a flagship steppe species
14 September 2010National Nightjar (SCARABBS) survey in 2004
13 September 2010Effects of grazing on upland birds
3 September 2010Instituting effective monitoring of Protected Areas as a contribution to reducing the rate of biodiversity loss in Africa
3 September 2010Institutional support to BirdLife South Africa
20 August 2010National Woodlark and Dartford Warbler (SCARABBS) surveys in 2006
19 August 2010National Cirl Bunting (SCARABBS) survey in 2009
11 August 2010North Wessex Farmland Bird Project - South East
6 August 2010Illegal killing slows population recovery in north Scotland red kites.
5 August 2010Conservation biology of choughs
20 July 2010Essex farmland bird project
16 July 2010Establishing Bird Population Monitoring schemes in Africa
16 July 2010National Beached Bird Survey
16 July 2010Annual report on seabird numbers and breeding success in Britain and Ireland
9 July 2010Habitat associations of woodland birds
9 July 2010The Repeat Woodland Bird Survey
9 July 2010The breeding ecology of wood warblers
9 July 2010Identifying the cause of the willow tit decline
9 July 2010Review of the knowledge of declining species in the UK woodland bird indicator
9 July 2010Stone curlews and disturbance
9 July 2010Monitoring the impact of the English Woodland Grant Scheme
8 July 2010The Antrim Hills Breeding Wader Programme
8 July 2010Stone curlew conservation management
4 July 2010Conservation of the Northern Bald Ibis in Syria and the Middle East
2 July 2010Supporting BirdLife Zimbabwe (BLZ)
2 July 2010Supporting NatureUganda
2 July 2010Saving the special birds of Seychelles
30 June 2010A stable isotopic search for the slender-billed curlew
30 June 2010Developing a pan-African biodiversity monitoring strategy using remote sensing
28 June 2010Field-layer management trials for black grouse at Corrimony
18 June 2010RSPB Grange (Hope) Farm Monitoring
18 June 2010Skylark Plots
17 June 2010Determinants of field-layer vegetation in plantation restocks: consequences for black grouse conservation
13 June 2010Effects of blanket bog drain blocking
11 June 2010Correlates of the Repeat Upland Bird Survey (RUBS)
25 May 2010Testing management options for overwinter seed provision in Scottish agri-environment schemes
25 February 2010Global Wild Bird Indicators
23 February 2010Common Bird Monitoring in Bulgaria
23 February 2010UK Wild Bird Indicators
19 February 2010Breeding ecology of the spotted flycatcher
19 February 2010The effects of wind farms on upland birds
19 February 2010Common Bird Monitoring in Romania
19 February 2010Conservation of the Jerdon's courser
19 February 2010Impact on global biodiversity of agricultural development
16 February 2010Henderson Island Restoration Project
22 December 2009Fenland Farmland Bird Recovery Project
21 December 2009Corn bunting recovery work in North and East Scotland - Farmland Bird Lifeline (FBL)
18 November 2009London House Sparrow Parks Project
13 November 2009Operation Tree Sparrow
6 November 2009Protecting the Gola Forest
9 October 2009Aquatic Warbler LIFE Project
9 October 2009Supporting the Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST)
9 October 2009Assisting wildlife conservation in Kenya
9 October 2009Improving livelihoods through sustainable government, NGO, private partnerships in South Nandi Forest, Western Kenya
9 October 2009Tristan da Cunha Programme
7 October 2009Bringing reedbeds to life
25 September 2009Wider Biodiversity Benefits of Agri-Environment Schemes designed for birds
7 September 2009The UK Overseas Territories - The UK's hidden natural treasures
6 September 2009Developing Conservation Capacity in India
10 August 2009Heads of the Valleys Lapwing Project
4 August 2009Supporting the development of site management plans internationally
4 August 2009Developing Conservation Capacity in Nepal
15 July 2009Wales Black Grouse Recovery Project
14 July 2009Cornwall Corn Bunting Project
10 July 2009Hope for Malta
10 July 2009Protecting Key South African Biodiversity Sites through Community-based Conservation
10 July 2009Building Conservation Capacity in Sierra Leone
25 June 2009South Atlantic Invasive Species Project
25 June 2009Country Programme Poland
25 June 2009Turkey Country Programme
25 June 2009Greece Country Programme
25 June 2009Portugal Country Programme
25 June 2009Saving the Saker Falcon in Bulgaria
25 June 2009Developing Conservation Capacity in Nigeria
25 June 2009Conserving Echuya Forest, Uganda
25 June 2009Participatory Forest Management In Taraba State, Nigeria
12 June 2009Long Preston Wet Grassland Project
8 June 2009Bird sensitivity map to provide locational guidance for onshore wind farms in Scotland
27 April 2009Bettisfield Farmland Bird Project
2 April 2009The Dyfi, Dysynni, Mawddach Yellowhammer Project
31 March 2009SCaMP - Sustainable Catchment Management Programme
26 March 2009Lough Neagh Wetlands tree sparrow project
25 March 2009Dorset Heathland Project
24 March 2009Saving the Dalmatian pelican in the Danube Delta
19 March 2009Projecting the impacts of future climatic change on biodiversity
19 March 2009Saving Gurney's Pitta and its forest habitats in Thailand and Myanmar
19 March 2009Upland Breeding Bird Survey
19 March 2009A review of indirect effects of pesticides on birds and mitigating land-management practices
19 March 2009Corncrake conservation management
19 March 2009Safeguarding Africa's birds in the face of climate change
19 March 2009Diagnosing declines in Northern Irish seabirds
13 March 2009Peak Nestwatch
2 March 2009Lake District breeding wader project
15 January 2009Bird sensitivity map to provide locational guidance for onshore wind farms in England
15 January 2009Habitat associations of nightjars breeding on heathland in England
12 September 2008Slender-billed curlew
10 September 2008Conserving critically endangered vultures in Asia
4 September 2008Control of alien plants and mice at Gough Island World Heritage Site
4 September 2008EU Life Priolo project
4 September 2008EU Life Yelkouan shearwater project
2 August 2008Country Programme Belarus