I’m no botanist (and I can produce references if needed) but I loved this book – and many of the readers of this blog will love it too. The idea is simple – see all the orchids of Britain in a year. Do you think the author succeeded or not? If not, how close…
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Tim Melling – Przewalski’s White-throated Dipper
This is the same species of Dipper that occurs in Britain but is of the Tibetan and Chinese subspecies Przewalski. I posted it for interest because it does look subtly different from European Dippers. This one has a wholly dark belly, lacking the brighter orange band that we have on British Dippers.. I’m finding it…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (48) by Paul Thomas
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Yorkshire Dales NP takes the high ground on raptor persecution
There have been previous signs that the Yorkshire Dales National Park is ashamed of its deserved reputation as being a raptor persecution hotspot – and wants to do what it can to highlight the issue and move people towards a solution. This is in stark contrast with the inspid response of the Peak District National…
Defra’s third draft on grouse shooting: wholly inadequate
The e-petition of Ed Hutchings, which calls for licensing of grouse shooting, has received a government response.I know that Ed is travelling at the moment but before he headed off he said he would write a guest blog here on his return in which he was expecting to comment on the government response which he…
RSPB joins the party on Judicial Reviews
The RSPB has just announced on Martin Harper’s blog that it, too, is making a legal challenge to Natural England’s licensing of brood meddling. The RSPB tipped me off on Tuesday that they had made this decision but they were waiting until they had sent off their letter before action before going public. It’s good…
Trusted Trustees (5) – International Women’s Day
It’s International Women’s Day, although it has been delayed in our wildlife NGOs. Here are the number of trustees and male trustees for a variety of wildlife NGOs (others are, of course, available) and also the gender of their Chairs and CEOs. They are in some sort of order.
Peregrines
The results of the 2014 Peregrine survey are now published (not very quickly). It’s good to see the detail although the overview results have been available for quite a while. Peregrines have done well in the lowlands and badly in the uplands. We already know (since 2011) at an even finer grain, for northern England,…
Podcast on #justice4henharriers with Lush’s Charlie Moores
Charlie Moores came to have a chat with me on Monday. Here is our conversation. It’s quite long – 37 minutes.
Can you guess?
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting ends on Monday 2 April. How many signatures do you think it will achieve? I’ll happily send a signed, hardback copy of Remarkable Birds, or of Fighting for Birds if you prefer, to you or a named recipient in the UK if you come…