Tim writes: the name has nothing to do with marine reptiles but is onomatopoeic, imitating the bird’s tuneful purring call. The call is the way most birds are located as they often remain hidden among foliage in the tall hedgerows in which they often nest. They are generally associated with arable farmland as they feed…
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Two sad losses
This week two of my former colleagues at the RSPB have passed away: Roy Taylor and John Lanchbery. They were both wonderful colleagues full of knowledge and good humour. They probably didn’t have huge amounts in common apart from their dedication to the environmental cause and their expertise and commitment to it. Roy Tayler. Photo:…
Putting two and two and one together in one small corner of the Bowland Fells
The locations of five Hen Harriers whose satellite tags have mysteriously ceased to transmit in and adjacent to an SPA set up to protect Hen Harriers: SD596621 tag id 94591 tagged by NE 23 June 2010, ceased transmitting 18 Aug 2010 SD617605 ‘Hope’ tagged by RSPB summer 2014, ceased transmitting 13 September 2014 SD624632 Thor…
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…