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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
Tim Melling – Flying Steamer Ducks
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These are the smallest of the three steamer ducks and the only one that can fly. It is also the only species that is found on freshwater lakes (but can occur on the sea). They are called steamer ducks because the two flightless species do the butterfly stroke across the surface moving rather like a…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Crowdfunder comments
The BAWC crowdfunder is doing really well – it’s already at £9000. It’s really nice to see some of the comments that people have left when they donate money: Raptors need saving from wildlife crime. The Government are not interested in wildlife crime so I am pleased you are. Good luck with this project –…
You be a judge
The shortlists for each of the categories in the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards are published. So you can decide for yourself who the winners are. You’ll find it a lot easier in the privacy of your own home than in a room with a lot of people who have similarly firm opinions and…
Guest blog – #SaveLodgeHill by Adrian Thomas
Adrian Thomas is a lifelong birder, editor of The Birds of Sussex, and author of RSPB Gardening for Wildlife. Oh, and he has a day job with the RSPB as a Project Manager, which has included the NoAirport@Cliffe campaign and working with the Environment Agency to create Medmerry, the major managed realignment scheme in West…
Book review – Climate Change by HRH The Prince of Wales
It’s a while since I bought a Ladybird book – but I still have a lot of the original series dotted around the house. This book, published today, is one of the ‘Expert’ series and the three authors can rightly be classed as such (but even if they weren’t, this book has been peer-reviewed by…
Tim Melling – Waxwings
Tim Melling writes: It does not seem to be well known but adult male (Bohemian) Waxwings can show red waxy tips on the tail, as well as the wing. Some have red feather shafts in the tail but only a very few have small waxy tips too. You can just see this feature on the…
Guest blog – Murder on the African Express by James Hogg
James (@JWTHogg) writes: I grew up on a farm on the edge of the North York Moors and have always been interested by nature and always wanted to be able to put a name to everything. Over the years this has grown to a love of birds and luckily circumstances have allowed me to travel…
A month for badgers
The Wildlife Trust/Simon King e-petition to stop the Badger cull rather than expand it into new areas has a month to run and is around 18,000 signatures away from the magic 100,000. Now, as we know, 100,000 signatures does not mean that government will do anything – but, as we also know, it does mean…