For the same wonderful images, and the same words in English…
Remarkable Birds published in Russian
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Category: AUTHOR: Reflections, Inglorious, Message from Martha, Remarkable Birds etc
It’s that day again
1 September 1914 saw the death of a female Passenger Pigeon in Cincinnati Zoo. That bird was called Martha and was the last Passenger Pigeon to draw breath – the last individual of what had not long before been the most numerous bird species on this planet. This is my book on the subject (still…
Making my fortune from book sales
The abuse I get on social media is pretty mild stuff compared with that received by others. It usually comprises allegations that I am fat (these are true), a liar (these are untrue, but then I might be lying in saying that) or in this campaigning lark for the money (ha ha!). Apparently I wrote…
Something I wrote…
… for the Green European Journal on rewilding.
Coining it in
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I’m doing what I choose to do – writing, campaigning and enjoying life. And I am enjoying life very much (it’s probably much better than the alternative). And the money keeps pouring in! Here is the 6-month royalty statement for my three books with Pelagic Publishing: Fighting for Birds (2012), Behind the Binoculars (with Keith…
Gogglebooks
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Which should survive, hen harriers or grouse moors? Avery gives fair hearings to both sides and comes down against grouse moors
The Inglorious 12th
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A week today the grouse shooting season opens (although because it’s Sunday there won’t be any shooting). I wrote this book, Inglorious, to document the ills of driven grouse shooting and to help energise a movement for change. We aren’t there yet – but we are getting closer all the time. Thank you to everyone…
This was nice
Inglorious; conflict in the uplands is nearly three years of age (if publication date = birthday). I’d have thought that anyone who wanted to read it would have done so ages ago, but that just shows how little I know. I still get the occasional email from people telling me they’ve just read it, and…
For our French readers…
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Congratulations on your result against Belgium last night – we hope to see you on Sunday. Coming to a bookshop near you in time for your Christmas purchases – to be published 4 October 2018.
Missed this one!
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Having been in the USA for a significant chunk of time recently, I noticed this press release. It refers to the extinct Carolina Parakeet – a species which was probably last seeen in the wild in 1904, but whose last individual survivor died in Cincinnati Zoo (in the same cage that housed the last Passenger…