Storm Petrel. Photo: Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) RSPB press release: First storm petrel chick for Shiant Isles Project records calls from burrow A European storm petrel chick has been recorded calling on the Shiant Isles for the very first time. This is an important step for the Shiant Isles Recovery Project as it’s the first known…
Category: THE WILDLIFE NGOs – RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wild Justice, BSBI etc
Press release from Huddersfield Birdwatchers’ Club
An account of the Birds of the Huddersfield District was written in 1915 by Huddersfield man Seth Lister Mosley and is one of the most important books in the history of local and national ornithology. However, it is very rare and little known outside specialist circles, but is full of interest for a present day…
Wight White-tails?
Press release from Roy Dennis Foundation and Forestry Commission England: White-tailed Eagle. Photo: Mike Crutch Invitation to White-tailed Eagle public meetings Members of the public are being invited to three public meetings to be held on the Isle of Wight on 12th and 13th November to find out more about a proposed project aiming to…
Press release – Orkney stoats
Ground-breaking project gets green light Major project to safeguard Orkney’s internationally important native wildlife wins National Lottery and LIFE support An ambitious project to safeguard Orkney’s world-renowned and internationally important native wildlife has been given the go ahead after receiving support from the National Lottery and the EU’s LIFE programme, it was announced today. The…
More fall-out from RSPB AGM
Martin Harper’s blog carries a rapid account of the AGM but it has attracted more comments than usual. In Martin’s answers to comments he confirms that the RSPB is moving towards there being 200-300 fewer staff in three years’ time than now. This was not a figure that was revealed to the membership at the…
Monster Mice Gobble Gough Seabird Species
RSPB Press Release Tristan’s Albatross chick. Photo: J. Cleeland Albatross-eating mice responsible for two million fewer seabird chicks on UK island each year Introduced house mice on the UK Overseas Territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are killing seabirds at greater levels than feared resulting in at least two million fewer seabird chicks…
RSPB AGM
If this were a rating on TripAdvisor or similar then this year’s RSPB AGM would score quite highly. It was a bit less slick than usual – whoever was working the images didn’t quite get them right all the time for example. But it was still an inspirational event – and the AGM itself is…
YFTB are back!
Photo: At a meeting of trade unions (1996) by Ion Chibzii from Chisinau, Moldova. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons You Forgot the Birds is back with a new website with new errors and they have sponsored (does that simply mean bought?) a ‘story’ on the Guido Fawkes website. There is nothing new…
RSPB AGM + on Saturday
It’s the RSPB AGM on Saturday. You can attend the morning AGM, which is not as dull as it may sound, and in fact is always a rather uplifting event, for free if you are a fully paid up member. I am, and I’ll be there (although I promised myself when I left the RSPB…
News: RSPB press release
Egg collector pleads guilty to charges Most prolific egg collector in recent times took nearly 5,000 eggs, including those of rare and declining birds. Today (12 October) Daniel Lingham appeared at Norwich Magistrates’ Court facing five charges contrary to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, relating to the taking and possession of wild bird eggs….