We can keep birds ranging in size for small passerine seed eaters, such as finches and sparrows, medium sized parrots, through to large grazing birds such as geese, and fish eating birds, such as cormorants.

The outdoor aviaries are equipped with a series of pools and are large enough to allow vigorous exercise to ensure fitness.

For research with these birds we have a wide range of rooms and training facilities available including rooms with controlled environments and a purpose built training flume, a dive tank and a surface pool for work on avian energetics and sensory capacities.

For local field work we have the use of the 100ha Chaddesley Woods nature reserve 16.5 km from the University where we have erected 300 nest boxes for long term work on the breeding biology of a range of passerine species. We are grateful to the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust for permission to use this wood as a site for our research and especially to Mervyn Needham, the  woods' warden, for his encouragement and assistance.

The Centre for Ornithology also houses a suite of well equipped labs where it is possible to conduct work on neurobiology, cell biology and molecular biology.  A number of muffle furnaces are available for work on the inorganic components of egg shells. The School's Functional Proteomics and Genomics Laboratories are along the corridor and provide a wide range of up-to-date techniques and equipment run by expert technicians.