The story so far: Smidgeons of information on gull culls from NE – 14 February 2018 Bowland gull cull licensing facts still kept secret by NE – 6 February 2018 FOI Bowland gull cull – November 2017 Quick response from NE on Bowland gull cull – 7 September 2017 Any NE news on Bowland gull…
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Paul Leyland – Orange Tip
Paul writes: Orange-tip is a great early spring butterfly. It is one of the first butterflies to emerge that hasn’t over-wintered as an adult, so is always beautifully fresh at this time of year. In Yorkshire, over the last ten years, the first sighting has ranged from 22 March in 2011, to 23 April in…
Book review – Framing Nature Toolkit by Ralph Underhill
Reviewed by Ian Carter My wife picked up a copy of this short book at a recent Natural England event where Ralph was giving a talk. To be honest I was rather surprised they let him inside the building given how rude he has been about them – including that logo with the roof. The…
Tim Melling – Golden Takin
Tim writes: the Golden Takin is a rare mammal that inhabits the same mountainous bamboo thicket forests as Giant Panda. There are four subspecies and this is the form that lives in Sichuan (Budorcas taxicolor tibetana) with more blotchy flanks than the true Golden Takin (B.t.bedfordi) from Shaanxi, NW China. The remaining two subspecies are…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (52) by Paul Thomas
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