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…
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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…
Guest blog: Fake eggs, fake news and guillemots by Tim Birkhead
Tim Birkhead is professor of Zoology at the University of Sheffield. He’s been studying guillemots on Skomer Island, and elsewhere for over 40 years. There is an interview of Tim in Behind More Binoculars. Most of his research has been on the mating systems of birds, but after seeing the guillemot’s egg feature on a…