This is not an easy book to read, because it is quite technical, and unavoidably so, but it is an important one. The science is well-explained and if you want to understand how climate change is already affecting birds, and how it will in future, as well as how scientists study these matters, then it…
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
Breaking news – Malta halts hunting season until 10 October
See here Well done to the Maltese Prime Minister! That will make Prince William’s visit to celebrate 50 years of independence less controversial.
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Ralph writes: Maybe if we had a more accountable and representative political system we would secure a better future for nature and wildlife.
Keep going!
I’ve given the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting a bit of a breather for the last few weeks but it keeps gaining signatures – 20,000 by Christmas? Might that be possible? The grouse shooting season ends on 10 December. Wouldn’t it be great if it never opened again? I had a nice chat to…
Och No!
A great debate, a massive turnout (84.6%) – but nothing changes? No – everything changes a bit. You can’t have such an important debate, held with such passion, and then life goes on the same. It just isn’t possible. Cameron has entered that dangerous ‘I haven’t got much time left to do something good’ period…
Results of that ornithological teaser
I gave you a list of 73 bird species that I saw or heard on five visits to my local patch of Stanwick Lakes in early September and asked you to pick 5 species that I had seen on all five visits and 5 species I only saw on a single visit. This was a…
Nothing earth-shattering
Today: I read quite a lot about grouse shooting and its history I watched a Red Admiral feeding on ivy in my garden I ‘phoned a friend I sat in the garden enjoying the sunshine I booked train tickets to go to London on the People’s Climate March on Sunday Tomorrow: I will reveal…
Last chance…
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…to have a go at this little ornithological brain twister. Entries close at midday. A copy of A Sparrowhawk’s Lament to the winning entry.
LUSH customers sign 20,000 Hen Harrier cards
LUSH stores spent a week featuring the plight of the Hen Harrier back in August. I was really impressed when I went into several stores to talk to the staff, starting with Martyn and Joe in Northampton and Amy, Grace, Helena, Hayley and Dave in Peterborough. My office still has the aroma of bath-bombs in…
Just like a Hen Harrier
A female Montagu’s Harrier looks very similar to a female Hen Harrier. They can be rather difficult to tell apart unless you are familiar with the two species (or one of them very well). Both are brown, the same shape and with a white rump. Did you see the item on the One Show yesterday…