Sometimes really nice things happen, and sometimes they happen at just the right time. Here is an email from America which I received yesterday morning, completely out of the blue: I greatly enjoyed reading A Message from Martha. Living on the beach in Florida, I saw swarms of birds wheel and swoop, and I thought…
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Seriously good offer
My book about the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, A Message from Martha, is still available in paperback but will soon go out of print in hardback (jacket above). So I have snapped up most of the last hardbacks and can offer them to you at around the price you will pay for the paperback…
Writing competition – Wildlife and the Arts winner, Ross Hunter
I am twenty-two years old and I am currently a bookseller in Waterstones having recently graduated with an English Literature degree from The University of Aberdeen. My interest in nature was sparked by visits to my Grandpa’s farm in Aberfeldy, Perthshire and an entirely spontaneous obsession with birds during my early years of high school….
Stirley Farm talk – Thursday evening, 27 October
I’m giving a talk at the YWT Stirley community farm on Thursday evening. Details and how to book – click here. ‘Author, campaigner and naturalist Mark Avery on his campaigns to protect the Hen Harrier and why he thinks driven grouse shooting should be banned. The venue for the talk is Hall Bower Chapel, 69A…
Writing competition – International Wildlife winner, Hugh Webster
Hugh Webster is the winner of the International Category in this blog’s writing competition. A copy of Remarkable Birds is in the post to him. Hugh writes: I recently took a break from teaching and returned to work for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (on twitter @BPCTcamp) as a research coordinator, living and working in…
An early review of Remarkable Birds
Thank you to Matt Merritt for this review in that other birdwatching (actually, Birdwatching) magazine. Remarkable Birds by Mark Avery is published by Thames and Hudson.
The gift that keeps on giving
The Gunning Wildlife, Conserving Tadpoles team make a habit of getting things wrong these days – there are three errors in this tweet of theirs. That passage purports to be a quote from my work in 2015 – in fact the GWCT have introduced two errors into the passage and it was actually a quote…
Thank you for your entries
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Thank you for your entries to this blog’s writing competition. Entries closed at midnight last night and the last entry got in under the wire with 10 minutes to go. You submitted 47 entries (from 43 people). These were in four categories of ‘wildlife and the arts’ (8 entries), ‘wildlife and politics’ (19 entries), ‘international’…
Six and a half days, seven evenings
You have six and a half days, and seven whole evenings to write your entry or entries for this blog’s writing competition. Entries are now coming in and so there will be competition to win! If you would like to win a signed copy of my new book, Remarkable Birds, then write 400-1200 words on…
Martha – the song (by The Corner Laughers)
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And to end Passenger Pigeon Day – here’s a reminder of the Corner Laughers’ song, Martha (Cincinnati, 1914). Midsommar (solstice single) by The Corner LaughersI see the Corner Laughers are coming to the UK again this autumn (they must like it) and have dates around the place – I may go see them in…