This is a book for the intelligent and inquisitive birder – which may limit its reach somewhat – but also for students of evolutionary biology and all those who have wondered at how we have ended up, in any part of the world, with the mix of species we see today. It is a…
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Tim Melling – Collared Crow
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Tim writes: the Collared Crow used to be common over large areas of lowland, rural China, just creeping into Vietnam. But its numbers have tumbled over the past 15 years and is now only found commonly in a few areas in its former range. Places that used to support hundreds of birds are now…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (53) by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Flowers we can pick (1) – Dandelion
Plantlife says that, provided we don’t go over the top, we can pick some of our commonest and prettiest flowers. That’s quite brave of them! I’ll cover one of the ‘Pickable 12’ each week at relevant times through the spring and summer. Let’s start with the Dandelion – and you can come pick them in…