Welcome
This is the website of the Cambridge Local Group. RSPB local groups are a great way to meet friendly, like-minded people in your area while learning more about birds and wildlife. We provide an interesting range of indoor and outdoor meetings and promote the work and activities of the RSPB.
Membership of the Local Group s £15.00 from January to December and gives you free access to indoor meetings/talks, field trips (a group member usually guides the group around the location and you would be expected to pay travel and reserve access fees where applicable). You also receive a quarterly newsletter and in winter we sometimes run zoom sessions to save members travelling in bad weather. Please contact RSPBCambridge@outlook.com for more information and how to join.
2023 Programme
The events we are running during 2023 are now available to view.
Latest news
May Indoor Meeting Review – The Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica by Richard Bashford
Having worked for the RSPB and the BTO for several decades in a variety of roles, Richard currently oversees the development of RSPB Local Groups…
Events 2023
Zoom Meetings These will be hosted by the Online Manager, who will email the Zoom connection details to all members. Meetings will start at 7.30…
Climate change effects on nature and wildlife
“Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]”…
Events
We usually meet twice a month (see programme of events) We hold both an indoor meeting and a field trip most months. We adhere to…
From the blog
Review – October Indoor Meeting – David White (BTO) – Breeding Bird Survey Review
David White gave us a highly-informative yet lively talk on the work of the BTO. He outlined the range of its surveys and the uses of…
Review – April Indoor Meeting – Peter Holden – Birds Without Borders
The annual cycle of bird migration has intrigued people for hundreds of years. With current research technologies of increasing sophistication, the distance and speed of…
March Indoor Meeting – Jonathan Forgham – Birds of the Camargue
For our first Indoor Meeting of the year, we welcomed back Jonathan Forgham, who last spoke to us in 2014. This time, Jonathan took us…
Review -February Zoom Meeting – Mary Braddock – Life in a Volcano – Yellowstone and Grand Tetons.
After our January meeting covered the uplands of Armenia, for February we crossed the Atlantic but continued among mountain habitats, as Mary Braddock took us…