Something to read over the weekend…

This short, but beautiful, and fascinating, ebook was produced by Birds on the Brink when their planned exhibition fell by the coronavirus wayside. Have a look and a read – click here.

BTO press release – A Cuckoo called Carlton II

A Cuckoo called Carlton II has just arrived back in England having spent the last ten months travelling to and from the Congo rainforest, becoming the first of the BTO’s satellite tracked cuckoos to return to this country in 2020.  Aided by favourable southerly winds, he completed the last leg of his mammoth journey in…

NEWS: No Fin whaling in Iceland in 2020

It’s been confirmed that there will be no Fin whaling in Iceland this summer. Kristján Loftsson’s reasons for not going ahead, he says, include the difficulty of competing in the Japanese market now that the Japanese government supports its own whaling industry. According to Kristján, prices are low and costly testing for chemical analysis doesn’t…