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Guy writes: as a young boy interested in birds, albatrosses, being birds mainly of the southern hemisphere, always had something of a mystical status to me.  From school, I remember an English Literature lesson covering the ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Coleridge.  This lengthy poem revolves around the killing of an albatross…

Tim writes: some books and websites call this species Lesser Redpoll (Acanthis cabaret) but there is no genetic difference between these and Common Redpolls (A. flammae).  And from 1 January 2018 BOU officially dropped this species to become a subspecies of Common Redpoll when they adopted the IOC species guidelines.   So this is now Common…

There was one in our garden today. It was a sunny day but not by any means a warm one.

This Guardian headline is a bit misleading as the text of the Oceana report shows that the assessment covered 104 stocks, and for getting on for half of them there were too few data to be confident on stock state one way or the other. 20% of stocks were in critical condition and 36% were…