[2] As of 2013 it has over 1800 members, employs four full-time staff, holds regular meetings, conducts surveys and organizes birdwatching tours.
[3] Its research programs include monitoring waterfowl at the Mai Po Marshes and Deep Bay, reviewing Hong Kong bird records and maintaining a checklist, studying the wintering ecology of black-faced spoonbills and conducting breeding bird surveys at the Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve.
The society also presents HKBWS views on local development plans and provides professional comments to the government on conservation action, birds and habitat protection.
It hosts the Hong Kong Big Bird Race, an annual fund-raising activity for wildlife and habitat conservation of WWF HK.
[5] In addition, HKBWS holds indoor meetings regularly, and topics are usually related to birdwatching, ornithology and nature conservation.