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
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Bird Recorder and Data Manager	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Conservation Officer

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Farming Adviser

Phil Douthwaite

Townsend Farm,

Radway,

Warwickshire

Tel: 01295 670319

Website Coordinator

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BTO Regional

Representative

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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.

UK currently holds approximately a quarter of the global Curlew population, with estimates for England of about 30,000 pairs. National monitoring data show that this population has been in long-term decline since the 1970s and has almost halved in the UK over the last 20 years. In lowland southern England, the population has declined to about 500 pairs, with many colonies on the verge of local extinction. Read more ...

Uzbekistan: Birding the Silk Road in Central Asia - Alan Peter

A spectacular and little-visited country lying on the famous Silk Road that once connected the East with the West and one of the group of former Soviet republics which border it on three sides - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan while it’s southern border touches Afghanistan. Read more ...

The Long Day Count is carried out by teams of observers in each of the twelve 10km squares recording the number of bird species seen during a maximum of 12 daylight hours on the second Sunday in May each year. Read more ...

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The BOS Curlew Recovery Project

12 May 2025 - Indoor Meeting at 7.30pm

Long Day Count: 3 or 4 May 2025