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…
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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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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…