Live streaming birds - updated March 2025
Cameras showing wild birds in the UK and beyond
Here are some of our favourite and most reliable live streams, for bird sights and sounds around the world.
If you spot any that are not working, or have suggestions for other cameras we could include, let me know in the comments.
We take a tour of these cameras together every first Saturday morning of the month (8-9am UK time). If you’d like to join in, become a paying subscriber to Shriek of the Week, which also gives you full access to the archive and supports me to keep this all going.
Loch of the Lowes (Scotland) - Osprey nest webcam
Spine-tingling view - clear sound - often picks up birds from the water, as well as those in the trees, such as Redstarts, Coal Tits, Siskins and Willow Warblers.
NEW! Kamfers Dam Flamingos, South Africa
NEW! Forest Nook bird feeder (Poland)
Slimbridge (Gloucestershire, UK)
Offering the ever-rarer sight and sound of Bewick’s Swans in the UK, and many other wildfowl and waders.
Devon Wildlife Trust bird feeder
Pretoria (South Africa)
Winter UK webcams feeling a little... grey? Fill up on Karoo Thrushes, Cape Sparrows, Green Wood Hoopoes (and the odd fruitbat) via this spectacular high-definition channel.
White Stork nest at Knepp (West Sussex, UK)
Features much bill clacking.
Cumbria Wildlife Trust - Seal Cam
A little grainy, but you can make out the seals here, on the beach at South Walney island.
Loch Garten Bird Feeder (Scotland, UK)
A large proportion of the world’s Coal Tits seem to like it here; reportedly there are Crested Tits and Red Squirrels too.
Rutland Water - Osprey nest webcam
Ospreys up close in summer, the occasional Cormorant, gull or Egyptian Goose at other times.
Big Bear Bald Eagles
Treetop Californian eagles incubating eggs (even in the snow).
Sapsucker Woods (Cornell Lab of Ornithology, USA)
Audio-only streams
Locus Sonos
Streams from around the world.
wilding.radio (currently offline)
Live sounds above and below water from the beaver enclosure at the Knepp Estate in Sussex. Perfect for Nightingale and Cuckoo in the spring.
The following cameras are offline at the time of writing, but may be worth checking:
Royal Albatrosses (New Zealand)
Even when the birds aren’t doing much there are those views.
Brownsea Island - Tern Hide (Dorset, UK)
This is the place for Spoonbills (often taking a nap, on the far bank at high tide).
Brownsea Island - Avocet Hide (Dorset, UK)
As well as Avocets, this often shows various other waders, duck and (in summer) terns.
Oh, I am so doomed.
Here are my two annual time sinks (out of many, these are the most watched).
Estonian wildlife cams
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en
These are largely run by volunteers, on very few resources. Cams go up and down depending on what they can manage...but some years their various osprey, buzzard, and other raptor nest cams have been jaw droppers. Remember, Estonia time zone is UTC +2. If you check cams during North America day you mostly get dark. :^>
Pennslyvania peregrine falcon cam (nesting on a state office building in downtown Harrisburg!)
https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dep/residents/environmental-education/pa-falcon-cam.html
I have many many others, but those are special. Partly because I remember the '70s and '80s in PA, and how we watched the plummeting of raptor populations with a sick sense of doom.
The man on that second link/page is Art McMorris, a wildlife biologist more responsible than anyone on earth for bringing PA peregrines back from the edge of extinction.
Art was still climbing bridges, towers, and buildings to do peregrine banding/scrape checking and maintenance/etc. into his 70s. I think he retired a few years ago though.
Thanks, Charlie.
Thanks for sharing all these links.