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I’ve gone back to look at the BirdTrack reporting rate graphs for two species which I think exemplify Lockdown – House Sparrow and Little Egret. During Lockdown from 24 March until late May there was a big increase in reporting rate (% of complete bird species lists entered into Birdtrack) for House Sparrow. The simplest…

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New research has pioneered the use of GPS tags on the UK’s tiniest seabird, the Storm Petrel. For the first time several years of data have been collected on the little birds’ movements at sea. Researchers discovered they regularly travelled up to 300 kilometres to feed in the stormy waters off Shetland. The Storm Petrel…

When British Birds arrived this morning that tipped me off to the six pairs of Hen Harriers that nested in Northumberland this year. Six pairs of Forestry England land and private land nearby produced 18 fledged young. A Hen Harrier named Sofia, hatched in 2018, who bred last year, was the most successful female this…

Here is a listing of almost all the posts here in the past calendar month. It’s arranged by topic with news and comment items at the top and regular features towards the bottom. A very few published posts don’t appear at all. Hen Harrier Day, Inglorious 12th and e-action: 31 August: 123,678 e-actions 29 August:…