Chris Bowden is RSPB’s Globally Threatened Species Officer, and Programme Manager of the consortium of ‘SAVE’ partners – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction. Chris has worked for RSPB on various threatened species, (after his Woodlark and Nightjar research days on Thetford Forest), notably the Northern Bald Ibis based in Morocco (for which he still has…
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Mystery bird competition (3)
Yesterday’s mystery bird was a partridge – although I’m not sure which species of partridge because my identification skills are rather dependent on plumage characteristics and call. The cause of death was probably being shot! There are five very obvious, bright, round shots distributed through the bird’s body. In fact, look closely, and there…
Spurn – a long way to go
I visited Spurn Point on Monday. The wind was from the south-east, it was the end of October and I was on the east coast. It could only mean one thing – it was a bit nippy! No, no, the only thing it could mean was that there was a chance of rare birds,…
Liz Truss – where is your signature?
The environment ministers of Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain have written to the EU Environment Commissioner, M Vella, who hails himself from Malta, calling for the Birds Directive and Habitat Directive to be maintained, un-merged and better implemented. These countries represent well over half, and close to two thirds, of…
Mystery bird competition (2)
Yesterday’s mystery bird was a Pheasant – did you all get it? I find bird identification much more difficult when they are plucked and X-rayed. It was part of a package of game birds that a group of us bought at Lidgate’s in Holland Park Avenue, London some time ago. We assume this Pheasant was…
Mystery bird competition
What is this bird and how did it die? Answer tomorrow, and much more through the week.
Dear Bradford Council – please ban the burn
Dear Councillor Love, I write to you because you are the chair of Bradford Council’s Environment & Waste Management Overview & Scrutiny Committee regarding the review of whether to allow burning to be included in the Ilkley Moor Management Plan. I am not a Bradford resident but I am a frequent visitor to the area….
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer
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Oscar writes: I’m back at uni in Durham until Christmas now, so won’t really be taking any photographs until then. Luckily I still have plenty from the past year that I haven’t shown here yet! Here’s one taken a few weeks ago; I spent several early mornings in Richmond Park before I left for uni,…
23,000 signatures
Another milestone was passed last week. Please sign this e-petition to get a debate in parliament about driven grouse shooting. BBC Countryfile has an online ‘debate’ on whether we should ban driven grouse shooting but they haven’t posted the link to the e-petition because the BBC can’t be seen to be ‘campaigning’. Hmm! Since when…
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