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Big Garden Birdwatch 2025
Big Garden Birdwatch 2025 is coming on 24-26 January! Sit back, relax and watch your garden birds for an hour. Whether you’re a newcomer or a regular – welcome! It all counts, and we’d love to know your sightings. You may even get some surprises.
Save the date: 24-26 January 2025
Come back in mid-December and register to take part in the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. In 2024, over 600,000 people took part – and you could be with them.
Once you register, we’ll keep you updated with top tips on how to get ready for your best Birdwatch ever.
On the day of the Big Garden Birdwatch itself, taking part couldn’t be simpler! You just spend an hour watching the birds in your garden, from your balcony or in your local park, and tell us what you’ve seen. If you see very few birds or none at all, that’s also really useful information for us, so please let us know.
Big Garden Birdwatch 2024: The Results
The Birdwatch began in 1979, when children’s TV programme Blue Peter asked viewers to post in their sightings. Much has changed since the 70s. But what has changed for our birds? Which birds have moved up the charts and which have moved down?
9.7 millionbirds counted during Big Garden Birdwatch 2024
610,000+people took part in Big Garden Birdwatch 2024
12.1 millionhours spent watching birds since 1979
The UK's top five birds
Celebrating its 21st year at the top of the Big Garden Birdwatch charts is the House Sparrow. These chirpy little characters were the most commonly sighted birds, with 1,442,300 counted over the Birdwatch weekend.
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House Sparrow2
Blue Tit3
Starling4
Woodpigeon5
BlackbirdWatch the 2024 results rundown
Sit back and enjoy our short film in which we reveal the Big Garden Birdwatch results 2024. How does the UK’s top ten compare to what you saw in your Birdwatch?
Big Garden Birdwatch results 2024: Who took the top spot?
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Big Garden Birdwatch shows the power of people coming together to take action for nature. We’d love you to join us by becoming a member.
- Access to more than 170 UK nature reserves
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See Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre at the Natural History Museum
Get 20% off tickets with RSPB membership
We've been working in affiliation with the Natural History Museum on an unmissable new exhibition, showcasing how birds have used brilliant and fascinating techniques to survive for more than 150 million years.
- Open from 24 May 2024 to 5 January 2025 at the Natural History Museum, London.
- RSPB members get 20% off tickets.
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