Lanner Falcons are scarce breeding birds in Europe but they are more numerous in sub-Saharan Africa. So it was a species I was hoping to see and photograph in Ethiopia but I got better than I could have hoped for. This male was flying round at eye-level in the morning sunshine with steep nesting cliffs…
Year: 2017
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (8) by Paul Thomas
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Birdwatchers are smoking mad
Birdwatchers are up in arms at the description of the new colour for cigarette packets as ‘the world’s ugliest colour’. Pantone 448 c is the colour which dominates the wardrobes of many UK birders – although not that of Lee G R Evans. Staff of clothing firms Country Innovation, Rohan and Paramo are reaching…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Bird populations experiencing austerity in UK countryside
Defra has published the annual data on bird population trends. Take a look at the graphs – everything is going to pot! In Defra’s own words, two reasons for taking notice of these trends are as follows: ‘Bird populations have long been considered to provide a good indication of the broad state of wildlife…