I’m on my way home from an excellent Irish Raptor Study Group conference, topped up by a visit to Leopardstown.
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Crowdfunder comments
The BAWC crowdfunder is doing really well – it’s already at £9000. It’s really nice to see some of the comments that people have left when they donate money: Raptors need saving from wildlife crime. The Government are not interested in wildlife crime so I am pleased you are. Good luck with this project –…
You be a judge
The shortlists for each of the categories in the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards are published. So you can decide for yourself who the winners are. You’ll find it a lot easier in the privacy of your own home than in a room with a lot of people who have similarly firm opinions and…
A tale of two tags
I’ve just given the GWCT some money as they have a crowdfunder running so that they can study Woodcock, and I like Woodcock. Earlier this week, I gave some money to Birders Against Wildlife Crime so that they can study birds of prey: I like birds of prey too. The two appeals would make an…
Winter Woodcock – watch (don’t shoot)
Did you see the Woodcock on Winterwatch last night? Didn’t you just want to shoot them? No? How strange. If you did shoot them then you wouldn’t have to tell anyone and we wouldn’t have any record of your behaviour. We wouldn’t know if you shot more this year than last year, for example. Woodcock…
Are you a wildlife enthusiast?
Are you a wildlife enthusiast? I bet you are! If so, the Forestry Commission in England would like to hear your views – so you should take the opportunity to give them. Takes about 7 minutes, is not too taxing! Click here. Some of the questions are a bit odd but it’s nice to be…
BAWC crowdfunder going well
Was it really only yesterday that Birders Against Wildlife Crime launched their crowd funding appeal to set up a raptor-tagging project? In just over a day it has already raised getting on for £5,000 out of an initial target of £10,000. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. The project involves satellite-tagging raptors…
You don’t have to be an expert.
I am firmly of the opinion (which doesn’t mean that it is correct of course) that vast numbers of British people are really quite knowledgeable about birds, and that even more of them are thrilled by them. In Remarkable Birds I suggest that ‘almost every human who has ever lived has probably seen or heard…
Curlew stories
One of the winners of the writing competition on this blog, Kerri Ni Dochartaigh, is collecting memories, stories and fragments from folk of all walks of life about ‘the majestic and hauntingly beautiful curlew’. Please send anything you would like to share to Kerri at inchwhooperswan@gmail.com .
Who would you like to sit a GCSE in natural history?
Mary Colwell’s e-petition to develop a GCSE in natural history is doing well – over 4000 signatures already (see here and here). If it already existed then I wonder how many Defra ministers would pass it?