This book, 67 species, 67 authors, 67 artists, is about the red-listed birds of the UK and goes on sale on Valentine’s Day. Show some love for our birds and buy a copy, please. Money from sale will go to RSPB and BTO projects on the Red67. All the artwork is brilliant and I expect…
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Tim Melling – Brown Parrotbill
Tim writes: Parrotbills are a small family of south and southeast Asian birds that have taxonomically puzzled ornithologists for years. They used to be in a genus Paradoxornis, which means “puzzling bird” because nobody knew where they belonged in terms of bird families. The confusion was exacerbated because it was long thought that the Bearded…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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7000th blog post
This is this blog’s 7000th post since starting up in April 2011. I didn’t write them all but I have read them all! How about you? There is a slowly growing archive of posts to be found here.
Dead Starlings on the road update
I’ve meant to come back to this for a while. Do you remember the dead Starlings found on a road in Anglesey? Well the police say that they were avoiding a predator – see here. I wonder. I’m not sure that the burden of evidence is anything like good enough. I’m happy to put it…