Around this time, 102 years ago, the last Passenger Pigeon on earth died in a cage in a zoo in Ohio. A Message from Martha by Mark Avery is published by Bloomsbury – for reviews see here.
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Publication day for Remarkable Birds
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Today is the publication date for my latest book, Remarkable Birds. It’s a very attractive book, which I can say because I had only a little to do with the choice of illustrations and the laying out of the book. I wrote the words in between the marvellous artwork! The cover is an Audubon –…
Remember Martha
‘On 1 September 1914, between midday and 1 pm, in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, a pigeon breathed her last, and with her died her species. The pigeon was known as Martha, and the species was the Passenger Pigeon. Amongst all extinctions, this example remains unusual in two respects: the precision with which…
Caption competition
Amanda Anderson seen talking to the boys in blue at Edale Hen Harrier Day. A couple of Amanda’s most famous quotes; ‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else.‘ ‘From the clip, it is very difficult to make out any detail at all, either of a person or a decoy….
Review of English sat tag data narrowed to zero species
They do things differently in Scotland – quite often better (but you’d never know from the rubbish that the SNP MPs are sending their constituents). Scotland has vicarious liability – denied to the English by a grouse-moor-owning Defra minister. Scotland is carrying out a review of losses of satellite-tagged raptors to investigate how many of…