Standing up for Nature
Pheasants, partridges and Red Grouse are, obviously, three-dimensional objects (they wouldn’t make much of a meal otherwise), whereas the X-rays are two-dimensional. Here is just an example, it’s from one of the partridges, of how two separate X-rays of the same bird can show the shot to appear to be in very different places.
Yesterday’s mystery bird was a Red Grouse. And on closer inspection we see all the usual fragments of small pieces of lead (picked out (only some of them) with red arrows) And here is a second Red Grouse… And a larger image of part of the carcasse with the lead fragments indicated with red arrows…
Yesterday’s mystery bird was another partridge – are you getting good at this? Here again, some of the lead fragments are highlighted in red. Again, there are lots of them and the fragments are really small and spread through the flesh of the live (but dying bird) and through the meat when it arrives on…
Today the SWLA exhibition opens at The Mall Galleries – an annual treat where the beauties of nature are brought in to the centre of London. I had a look around yesterday evening at a very enjoyable SWLA/BTO event. Artist Chris Rose got a taste for sub-marine adventure after winning The Wildlife Trusts’/SWLA’s Undersea Art…
Chris Bowden is RSPB’s Globally Threatened Species Officer, and Programme Manager of the consortium of ‘SAVE’ partners – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction. Chris has worked for RSPB on various threatened species, (after his Woodlark and Nightjar research days on Thetford Forest), notably the Northern Bald Ibis based in Morocco (for which he still has…