No book review this week – I haven’t had time to do a particular book justice in my reading. But I have been in a few bookshops in London. It’s always good to see one’s own books on sale, even if they sometimes take a bit of tracking down sometimes. This copy of Remarkable Birds…
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Tim Melling – Tufted Tit Tyrant
This tiny, beautiful bird occurs in montane forest all along the Andes, but occurs more generally in Patagonia right down to the coast. But they did not seem particularly common, and they were always on the move when I saw them so never easy to connect with. I photographed this individual in a Southern Beech…
Bird flu update
Two new confirmed cases of H5N8 bird flu in wild birds: a Buzzard in Somerset and a Canada Goose in Dorset. No new cases affecting domestic or commercial stock. In France, the country whose farmers have been hardest hit by bird flu, the mass cull of farmed ducks is beginning to come to an end…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Guest blog – Wildlife crime in Nepal by Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove carried out the first national pearl mussel survey and in one of those wonderful moments of happenstance, submitted his final report which recommended full legal protection during a periodic review of the Wildlife and Countryside Act. It had the desired effect and the law was changed in 1998 and Peter always highlights this…