This is a selection of bird songs – quite an eclectic selection from Caspian Snowcock to Greater Hoopoe-Lark and from Marsh Sandpiper to Wood Warbler by way of Gyr Falcon, Western Olivaceous Warbler and Red-rumped Wheatear. This is the first time that The Sound Approach has produced recordings on vinyl. For young readers, vinyl is…
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Behind More Binoculars – readers’offer
A follow-up to Behind the Binoculars to be published in October. Behind More Binoculars follows the same model as its predecessor: we ask birdy people the questions we think you’d like to ask. Interviewees: Frank Gardner Ann and Tim Cleeves Roy Dennis Kevin Parr Tony Marr Tim Appleton Tim Birkhead Dawn Balmer Jon Hornbuckle Tony…
Tim Melling – Twite
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Tim writes: Twite (Linaria flavirostris) are scarce and extremely localised breeding birds. The main population is in Scotland but in England they are almost wholly restricted to the South Pennines where fewer than a hundred pairs breed. They are one of just two British songbirds that feed almost exclusively on seeds, the other being…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (23) by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Please sign this petition – a vulture will thank you for it.
Guest blog – International Vulture Awareness Day by Ian Parsons
Tomorrow, the first Saturday of September, is International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD). The aim of the day is, as the name suggests, to raise awareness of the plight of vulture species across the world. The majority of these are in big trouble, in serious danger of extinction. Regular readers of this blog will know that…
Passenger Pigeon day
‘On 1 September 1914, between midday and 1 pm, in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, a pigeon breathed her last, and with her died her species. The pigeon was known as Martha, and the species was the Passenger Pigeon. Amongst all extinctions, this example remains unusual in two respects: the precision with which…
Cairngorms NP doesn’t know what to say…? UPDATED
Peter Argyle, Convenor of the Cairngorms National Park must have been keeping his fingers crossed that this wouldn’t happen. He attends a packed hall on Hen Harrier Day, says some of the right things about illegal persecution, and then another Hen Harrier disappears mysteriously in his National Park. And, of course, it was last recorded…
A large landowner speaks…
Given that the Convenor of the Cairngorms National Park, Peter Argyle, attended the Boat of Garten Hen Harrier Day event, and spoke at it, and would have heard the strength of feeling in that room about continued raptor persecution within the Cairngorms NP, it will be interesting to see what the National Park has to…
Calluna lost in the heather
RSPB press release: Satellite-tagged hen harrier disappears on Scottish grouse moor Rare bird of prey vanishes on 12th August The RSPB has issued an appeal for information after a young hen harrier, fitted with a satellite tag as part of the charity’s EU-funded Hen Harrier LIFE project, disappeared on an Aberdeenshire grouse moor. “Calluna”, a…