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Bird/poultry flu in proper wild birds in Northumberland

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Lindisfarne is a fantastic place: it’s beautiful scenically and stuffed full of birds, particularly in winter. One of the ‘star’ birds (all birds are stars, even Linnets) is the Light-bellied (or Pale-bellied) Brent Goose which visits the area around Lindisfarne in winter after travelling from its breeding grounds in the high Arctic in Svalbard (Spitzbergen),…

Your views on book reviews here

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I asked you a variety of questions about the book reviews on this blog and these were your responses. From the results below I take it that you generally like the reviews, find them useful and they steer your purchasing decisions a bit – at least a bit. Q1: My blog, Standing up for Nature,…

Closing this evening – this survey about book reviews here

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Many thanks to over 200 of you who have taken a minute (that is all it takes) to tell me what you think of book reviews that are published here. As with almost all polls/surveys here. The first 10 responses pretty much tell me what the overall message will be. So I’ll close this poll…

Guest blog – How nature dies by Alistair Gammell

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Alistair Gammell worked for RSPB for 40 years and was closely involved in the drafting of the Birds and Habitats Directives and for growing RSPB’s international work. He was RSPB’s first International Director and retired from RSPB in 2009.  He then worked to successfully establish large scale fully protected marine reserves in the seas around…