A wonderful Green Sandpiper again

Did you read this blog about a Green Sandpiper who travelled from a cress bed in Herts to its breeding grounds near Trondheim in Norway?  Well this is the bird itself (above). Barry Trevis took this photo a while after he had removed the GPS tag which held all the fascinating information on the bird’s…

Powerful evidence

Thank you to many of you who have let me know that you have submitted evidence to the House of Commons Petitions Committee inquiry into grouse shooting.  You have today, tomorrow and Wednesday to do the same. There will be few more powerful pieces of evidence than this one from Alan Stewart. Thank you Alan!…

Oscar Dewhurst – Lion

Oscar writes: I’ve just got back from a field course by my Biology course at Durham University which was held at a game reserve in South Africa. The work was pretty full on for the 10 days I was there, but we did have a couple of afternoons off where we did game drives in…

Writing competition – International Wildlife winner, Hugh Webster

Hugh Webster is the winner of the International Category in this blog’s writing competition. A copy of Remarkable Birds is in the post to him. Hugh writes: I recently took a break from teaching and returned to work for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (on twitter @BPCTcamp) as a research coordinator, living and working in…