I added ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ buttons to this site a few months ago. They appear on every page, every blog post and every comment. I added them to the site because a few people asked for them, and they are often found on websites like mine. It’s entirely up to you if you use them…
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
Exeter birding
A stroll around the floodplain at Exeter on Sunday morning produced two incidents which made me smile and a few additions to the year list. Any spot of birdwatching in January may add a few birds to the growing year list (not a massive priority for me but fun to see the list growing). As…
A few things
Big Garden Birdwatch is this weekend. It’s more fun, probably, if you remember to fill your bird feeders than if you don’t! John Armitage’s e-petition on licensing of grouse moors and gamekeepers is gathering a little pace – and has passed 7,800 signatures. There are four weeks to go. If you keep meaning to sign…
Guest Blog – 1000 miles in memory of Martha by Tristan Reid
If you are a regular reader of Mark Avery’s blog (and you really should be) then you will almost certainly be aware of the very frightening decline of the Turtle Dove. This is an iconic species that has been declining in the UK since the 1970’s. The problem is speeding up and between 1997 and…
Read me
Three magazines arrived at home last week and I’ve enjoyed reading each of them – and each is packed with good wildlife information. Birdwatch – for which I write a monthly column (the political birder) – is always excellent. I was talking to another Birdwatch contributor the other day and we agreed that we were…