Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Passenger Pigeon Day
On 1 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon on Earth, named Martha, died of old age in a cage in Cincinatti Zoo. Once the most numerous bird on Earth, the last Passenger Pigeon in the wild expired in 1900 or perhaps 1901 and the bird was known only in captivity after that. A bird that…
This is good to see
It’s good to see that this dataset has been updated. I’ve only had time to give it a quick glance but the errors I (we) spotted do seem to have been corrected. I’m told that RPUK will be updating their maps in due course.
Sad news: Peter Melchett, 1948 – 2018
Peter Melchett, campaigner, farmer and wildlife-lover passed away yesterday. He will be sorely missed and fondly remembered. He lived in northwest Norfolk, near Ringstead, and every time I pass the entrance to his farm I think of him, and will always do so. A little further up the road, towards the coast, there is a…
Strathbraan Raven cull
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An extract from the agreed minutes of the SNH Board meeting held on 20 June. Interesting that the Board pointed to the reputational risk of delaying the publication of the damning SAC report on the lack of science behind the misjudged Raven cull. ‘Towards the end of July’ couldn’t have been much later, it was…
Let’s get this past 2000 signatures this weekend (please)
Les Wallace’s moderate and sensible petition calling for a proper economic analysis of the costs and benefits of grouse shooting and grouse moor management is approaching 2000 signatures. It would be good to see it pass that mark this weekend – at the end of its first month. The RSPB Skydancer blog gave it some…
Wild hacking of falcons
I knew that the readership of this blog would fill in the gaps in my knowledge about wild hacking. Here is an interesting link with some photos that show that there can be lots of captive-bred falcons hanging around on moors in Scotland. Wow! I’ve asked SNH to confirm that wild hacking would require a…
Three weeks tomorrow – will you be there?
I didn’t know this
There are lots of things that I don’t know, but it’s not that often that someone tells me something and I think ‘Really? Can that be right? Sounds very odd! Never heard anything like that before’. But that happened to me recently when I was contacted by someone I didn’t know who told me that…
Icelandic whaling – three short updates
I haven’t fogotten about Icelandic whaling. Here are three short updates: discussions are progressing about how best to deliver the Bird Fair petition to Iceland in the most sensitive yet effective way. I expect there to be some news next week on this. our petition has gained 30 signatures as Mark Carwardine rescued a petition…