There is an excellent paper in British Birds – there often is. But the February BB has ‘The past, current and potential status of breeding Hen Harriers in North-east Scotland’ by Graham Rebecca, Brian Cosnette, Jim Craib, Alistair Duncan, Brian Etheridge, Ian Frnacis, Jon Hardey, Alastair Pout and Logan Steele. It’s a very good local…
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
Natural England looks for a scientist
The Natural England Board is looking for a scientist. This type of role might once have looked quite attractive when Natural England was seen as an organisation that worked hard for the conservation of nature, but is now far less attractive when it is difficult to see Natural England as anything other than a rather…
Back to normal?
After the run-in to the end of the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (which keeps edging upwards, but stands at 33,647 signatures), and a week of blogs about lead, it’s time to get back to normal (for a while). January was, however, a record month for this blog, with a record number of unique…
Lead Week, 22 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. Here’s a summary of points made by this blog, this week, on the subject of lead in food. I spent a considerable chunk of my life as a scientist so I am reasonably happy reading the scientific evidence on this subject although some of it is certainly unfamiliar…
Quite surprising really
That was fun – and surprisingly rich in birds. Final tally: Reed Bunting 2 Blackbird 3 Chaffinch 3 Great Tit 1 House Sparrow 7 Greenfinch 10 Starling 10 Woodpigeon 1 Dunnock 2 Goldfinch 3 Blue Tit 2 Robin 1 Collared Dove 2 I’ve just checked last year’s results – amazingly similar! Last year the species…