931 people took part in this 4-question poll (and lots of you emailed me about it too). It was all about choices – if you could save a species, which species would you save? You were put in a position where ‘all of them’ wasn’t a possible answer and so, perhaps, our choices (because mine…
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Feather
I was standing in the garden one day last week when I saw a feather falling to the ground. It fell slowly as you would expect – it floated to the ground in next door’s garden. It took around four seconds to cover the distance from the the height of the top of a nearby…
Just crumbs
I was pleased to see that there is some evidence, from the BTO, that the decline of urban House Sparrows has stopped, paused or slowed. Let’s hope that the House Sparrow is on the up again. This is what I wrote about it for The Independent.
Blackberry makes $1bn loss!
Blackberries are quite late in ripening this year. But with a little effort, you can still pick an ice-cream container full in half an hour. And they still taste yummy in blackberry and apple pie. What’s all the fuss about? …
Four questions on extinction
Blue Whale: “Mike” Michael L. Baird CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) via Wikimedia Commons Smallpox Virus: PhD Dre at en.wikipedia [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] via Wikimedia Commons Parachute Spider: Zoological Survey of India CC-BY- SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by-sa/3.0) via Wikimedia Commons This is just for…