Ornithologists kill critically endangered hummingbirds – an open letter In a paper recently published in The Auk, October 2018, (Sornoza-Molina et al 2018) a group of ornithologists collected seven specimens of a hummingbird new to science, and then declared that because of its extremely small range, it must be critically endangered (CR under IUCN Criteria). They…
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
World Land Trust evening with Steve and Helen Backshall
I’m disappointed (and a little bit guilty, as a trustee) that I can’t make this evening on 14 December. It looks great fun. More details here.
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Guest blog – Leopoldius by filbert cobb
filbert cobb is a regular commenter on this blog and has been since its early days (since February 2012). I suspect filbert cobb may not be his real name. He has produced two delightful guest blogs here in the past; Remember not to Forget, 30 September 2016 and The Sunken Garden, 25 September 2014. I…
This is a good idea apparently getting nowhere
I keep an eye on the UK Parliament petition site and this one caught my eye. I think it is a very good idea. No, really, a very good idea. But very good ideas can wither through lack of promotion. There is practically no chance that any of our wildlife NGOs will take up this…
Save the date – 7-9 December BTO Conference
Details of the BTO conference can be found here. I can’t make it this year – but it does look like a conference with plenty of high points.
Southern Arizona remembered
I was in southern Arizona at the end of May, for a couple of days. Both days were with the excellent bird guide Richard Fray – see two previous blogs from 2013 where I also was shown loads of birds by Richard (here and here). The second day this year was rather similar to my…
Minister – do your job!
Dear Dr Coffey, Each week seems to bring news of another Hen Harrier disappearing on or near a driven grouse moor. You must have been briefed on the findings of the study presented in Vancouver back in August on the analysis of NE’s Hen Harrier data. You do know that the science suggests that there…
From Mr Carbo
Another Hen Harrier down
RSPB press release: Yet another hen harrier disappears in suspicious circumstances in North Yorkshire This is the ninth tagged hen harrier in three months to vanish in similar circumstances in the UK Hen harriers have declined by a quarter since 2004 and are on the brink of extinction in England North Yorkshire is ‘worst county in…