Oscar Dewhurst – Red-breasted Merganser
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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
Sunday book review – Penguins – close encounters by David Tipling
Did you like the John Lewis advert? That is what Christmas is all about after all – which retailer has the best advert to get you spending your money. Which of the world’s 17 species of penguin was it? I’ve never seen a penguin in the wild, only a few in zoos, but then very…
More update
Every time I do an ‘update’ blog, as soon as it is posted, I remember all the other things that I meant to put in it, so here are a few more: 2014 was the warmest year on Earth ‘ever’ there will be a referendum in Malta on spring hunting – this spring. this was…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Mark writes: of course, children were the future in the past too, and the present isn’t so great.
Hare today and gone tomorrow?
Just when the grouse shooters thought that things might get a bit quieter for them, another e-petition related to grouse shooting emerges that is bound to get a lot of support. This one is directed at the SNH Director of Policy and Advice, Ron Macdonald, and asks SNH to protect Mountain Hares from widespread unregulated…