Soon you will be able to buy a new book of mine which I’ve put together with my friend Keith Betton and will be published by Pelagic (who also published Fighting for Birds). It’s called Behind the Binoculars and it’s a series of interviews with birders about how they first got into birds, what birds…
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Good news from Quito! Twice!
Governments across the world commit to stopping lead poisoning in migratory birds As described in my earlier blogs (here and here) the inter-governmental Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) has been holding a Conference of the Parties (COP) in Quito, Ecuador this week. One of the Resolutions aimed at stopping the poisoning of migratory birds includes…
Dr Debbie Pain recognised by Marsh Award
Dr Debbie Pain, the Conservation Director of the WWT, was recognised by the Zoological Society of London last week with the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology. Debbie worked ‘for’ me (in fact I appointed her) and then with me at the RSPB for 16 years before heading off for WWT. Debbie has done ground-breaking and influential…
Bird Fair – the people
The Game Fair was cancelled because of rain and plagues of frogs etc but at the Bird Fair we sweltered in the sun – does that tell us anything about how the weather gods see us? Probably not. I felt that there were noticeably fewer people than usual around on all three days but Tim…
Bird Fair – Day 3
We might as well call it the International Bird Fair – I spent a very large part of today talking to friends and colleagues from Spain and the USA. It was good to meet friends from the BirdLife International partner in Spain, SEO, again and other birders from various parts of Spain too. And the…