See Ian Parsons’s interesting guest blog on whether we should call gamebirds, gamebirds.
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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
Deep peat burning
Conder Head back in October 2018 This fire on the Abbeystead Estate’s Conder Head back in October has interested me. Is it on blanket bog? Apparently not. Is it on deep peat? Apparently so – see below a reply I received today. Well, we got there in the end. Natural England/Defra appear to be happy…
More Pheasants dumped – The Times
Yesterday’s The Times has a full page on Pheasants being dumped after shooting, and a leader, the second leader, entitled Pheasants’ Revolt too. See video here. The leader is a curate’s egg of a piece with the sensible sentence ‘Shooting has to be independently regulated and shot birds should be processed as far as possible…
Waitrose – still rather pathetic!
It seems that Waitrose is moving very, very slowly to change its misleading health warning on the game meat that it has been selling for weeks and weeks in its stores. I say ‘it seems’ because I received this response on Wednesday … Dear Dr Avery Thanks for your patience while I looked into this…
Guest blog – Reclaiming the name by Ian Parsons
Reclaiming the Name One of my favourite places in Britain is the north of Dartmoor, it has a wild and rugged appeal and, more often than not, a lack of people, although this might have something to do with the artillery ranges… Something happened up there recently, as I walked along the ridges overlooking the…
Bowland Gull Cull 24
Dr Coffey – what a charmer! What an advocate for wildlife she is as biodiversity minister!
Gilruth in The Field
There is a ridiculous article in The Field, penned by Andrew Gilruth of GWCT, which starts with the sentence ‘Our raptors arguably live in a golden age’ which sets a new standard for nonsense, even from the once rather impressive, and now rather irrelevant folk in Fordingbridge. Chipping in, in the race for the most…
Today, I am in court
Today is the third and final day of the hearing of our legal challenge to NE’s licensing of brood meddling. I may be able to write a few words about it for publication here on Friday afternoon – I’ll try.
Guy Shorrock – Capercaillie
Guy writes: The Capercaillie – still not out of the woods Capercaillies, the world’s largest grouse, are impressive birds. Their name derives from the Scottish Gaelic ‘capull coille’ meaning horse of the woods. I’ve only seen them a few times in Scotland, but had great views in Sweden on several occasions. I’ve also been fortunate…
A letter to my MP
Brexit and EDM1963 Dear Mr Pursglove I see you voted against the government’s Brexit deal yesterday evening. I assume that you will be voting against the No Confidence motion today. I think you will be on the winning side again. But just for the record, your views on Brexit and mine are poles apart. I…