Illegal killing major cause of death in Hen Harriers New study shows yearly survival rates of Hen Harriers ‘unusually low,’ with birds typically living just four months after fledging. Illegal killing is the main cause of death for older birds, accounting for up 75% of deaths each year in birds between one and two years…
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
NEWS: Monitoring shows that whaling is inconsistent with Iceland’s animal welfare objectives
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The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) believes that the killing of many whales in Icelandic waters during last year’s whaling season did not comply with the objectives of Iceland’s Animal Welfare Act. The headline in the Icelandic newspaper, Morgunbladid, reads ‘Whaling is inconsistent with animal welfare objectives’, In summary: 148 whales were killed; 38…
Bank Holiday Monday book review – Big Bat Year by Nils Bouillard
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Stories of ‘Big Years’ where the storyteller tries to see as many [some aspect of wildlife] as possible in [a defined area] in a year, usually a calendar year, are great fun. You do have to question the carbon emissions but if you can put them to the back of your mind then accounts of…
Bank Holiday Monday book review – An Atlas of Endangered Species by Megan McCubbin
We are taken to conservation projects intent on saving endangered species – 10 from the northern and and nine from the southern hemispheres (18 animals and one plant). Which 19 would you have picked? We meet those who are engaged in preventing these species from being driven to extinction and hear their stories of success…
Sunday book review – The Green Woodpecker by Gerard Gorman
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I like Green Woodpeckers, I always have, and was keen to find out more about them from the pen (keyboard I guess) of an acknowledged world woodpecker expert (see here for a review of the same author’s Wryneck). The book comprises 17 chapters which run from the taxonomy of the species through its anatomy, morphology,…