Committee

Chairman	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	1 Freemans Road, Bodicote, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 4DT	Tel: 01295 251073 Mob: 07721 072851
Secretary	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Witt's End, Radbones Hill, Over Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX7 5RA	Tel: 01608 644425
Treasurer	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Bankside Cottage The Square Epwell Oxfordshire OX15 6LA	Tel: 01295 780429
Bird Recorder and Data Manager	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Stoneleigh, Swan Lane, Great Bourton, Banbury, OX17 1QR	Tel: 01295 758488
New Members' Officer	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Reserves Coordinator	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Newsletter Editor	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.		Tel: 01295 721048
Conservation Officer	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Mike's blog is here

Other Officers

Farming Adviser

Phil Douthwaite

Townsend Farm,

Radway,

Warwickshire

Tel: 01295 670319

Website Coordinator

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

BTO Regional

Representative

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Witts End,

Radbones Hill,

Over Norton,

Chipping Norton,

Oxfordshire

OX7 5RA

Tel: 01608 644425

Facebook

The BOS maintain a Facebook page at this address: https://www.facebook.com/banburyos/. You can refer to this page within Facebook using the handle "@banburyos".

We also maintain a Facebook group called "Banbury Birds" which you can join to communicate with our members and the local community about birds: https://www.facebook.com/groups/banburybirds. You can refer to this group within Facebook using the handle "@banburybirds".

More information on how to use the group can be found in this article: Banbury Birds Facebook Group.

Updated 26th March 2020

Due to the current Covid 19 outbreak, the BOS has cancelled the April and May indoor meetings. If the current travel & social distancing restrictions remain in place or increase, we will also have to cancel the outdoor meetings scheduled for June through August. Read more ...

This meeting has been postponed due to the COVID-19 restrictions. We will reschedule this meeting when social gathering restrictions have been lifted.

Ecology and conservation of the Sociable Lapwing. - Rob Sheldon

Please note this is 1 week earlier than usual because of Easter

The Sociable Lapwing has suffered huge declines in range and population and is now listed as critically endangered. RSPB is working with a number of partners on the breeding grounds in Kazakhstan and on the migration routes and wintering areas in the Middle East and Africa to work out why this enigmatic and beautiful species has declined. Read more ...

COVID-19 Update 25th March 2020: This survey will not go ahead this year due to government travel restrictions.

A survey of breeding birds, conducted using 3 visits over 3 months to a random 1km square. Read more ...

Committee

Other Officers

Facebook

BOS and COVID-19

Postponed: 6 April 2020 - Indoor Meeting

Summer Random Square Survey 2020