My name is Findlay Wilde, you might remember me from the last guest blog I did for Mark about my concerns for the future of our fabulous, but endangered, wildlife and habitats. And now I am back to write my second blog. A lot has changed in a year and I have now started High…
Tag: BTO
Bird Atlas – Farmland birds
Pictures can get messages across better than words sometimes. As one flicks through the pages of this Atlas one keeps seeing farmland species with shrinking distributions. But the key to truly appreciating the scale of what is happening to these familiar birds is to look at the maps of change of relative abundance. Time after…
Bird Atlas – Winter
Winter really isn’t as interesting as the breeding season – but it’s quite interesting. Most resident passerine species have very similar distributions in the winter to those in the summer. That may sound obvious, but it needn’t necessarily be so, need it? Our Jackdaws and Chaffinches could all move to different areas of the country…
Bird Atlas – Ireland
Although we all will slip into talking about this fine book as the BTO Atlas it is the Atlas of the BTO, Scottish Ornithologists’ Club and Birdwatch Ireland. And it is the People’s Atlas too! Ireland, north and south of the border, is an interesting place – as revealed many times over in this Atlas….
The Minox challenge results
In the end it was close, but the winner was: the rspb. The total 1352 votes cast were as follows: rspb 311 The Wildlife Trusts 274 Buglife 264 Butterfly Conservation 231 BTO 128 Plantlife 75 MARINElife 69 Well done to the rspb – but well done to all. I hope that being able to…