I like boat trips – I never have to drive. Sunday was a lovely day, and there’s the rub – lovely weather often means not many seabirds! What we needed on the Yorkshire Belle was a strong wind and heaving seas – but there’s a rub there too – if the weather’s too bad then…
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
Satellite tags
Defra doesn’t have a plan for Hen Harrier conservation – if it did then the deployment of satellite tags on a large scale by private individuals and wildlife NGOs would have to be part of it. Of course, we taxpayers have paid for satellite (and radio) tags to be deployed on a moderate scale for…
I almost forgot
The paperback edition of A Message from Martha is published today. At less than a tenner (£10) it’s ridiculously cheap! ‘This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species‘ – Guardian ‘An entertaining book … told with humour and disarming self deprecation‘…
E-petition
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 19,000 signatures inside 2 months (late July, Aug, some of Sept). Last year, it took over 5 months to reach the same level (late May, June, July, August, September, October, early November). Thank you to all who have signed already and promoted it- keep going please! We’re…
Our Hen Harrier Study
Yesterday I received this reply from NE to a request for information about our Hen Harrier study. Dear Dr Avery, Access to Information Request – Request Number RFI 3112 Thank you for your request for information relating the Hen Harrier study which we received on 01 September 2015. Your request has been considered under…