The power of birds of prey is illustrated well in this little article about what you might see in Yorkshire – 6 of the 14 species are raptors. Of course, the article does not say that North Yorkshire is known as the UK capital of illegal raptor persecution! The Red Kite above (ahem) is joined…
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I got an email from WWT which pointed me towards this very fuzzy refocus document. There’s a lot about how great WWT is, how it is going to do loads of good things for wildlife but embedded in here is some very vague news about redundancies. As an organisation which funds conservation through duck zoos…
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Guest blog – Three fantastical things you didn’t know about PLANTS by Josh Styles
Josh Styles has been captivated by plants since the age of 6, which has carried over to now in his mid twenties and his love for plants has allowed him to get quite a bit done. Through university, he managed to balance three jobs and other volunteer commitments with his undergraduate ecology degree, and still…
Sunday book review – Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia by David Callahan
This book does what it says on the cover: it is a guide to birdwatching sites in three East Anglian counties. It is thus a potentially useful book rather than a work of literature. So, how useful is it? Very! The long list of sites is the right list and the information about each site…