I’m getting on a plane today for the first time since June 2013. I’m heading up to Aberdeen to give a talk about Passenger Pigeons (and a little bit about Hen Harriers) to the Aberdeen RSPB Group on their 40th anniversary. I’m looking forward to seeing Aberdeen again. It must be almost exactly 34 years…
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Guest blog – What Martha Means to Me by Emma Websdale
Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and Writer. Working as the Communications Support Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda. I sit on a train that’s heading to London, September’s issue of BBC Wildlife in my hands….
Passenger Pigeon centenary looms
Here’s a piece by me in today’s Guardian about the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. They slightly mangled the ending (Grrrr!) So here’s the original version of the penultimate paragraph. ‘And I can’t see that we would be worse off if the US had kept the Passenger Pigeon and more of its forests, and the…
A Message from Martha published in the USA today
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Today, A Message from Martha is published in the USA – six days before the exact centenary of Martha’s death in Cincinnati Zoo on 1 September 1914. Here are 10 reasons to buy and read my book if you are living in the USA or Canada: this was the most numerous bird in the world…
St Martha’s day
St Martha is the patron saint of cooks – and this is her day. Page 148 of A Message from Martha will give you details of stewing, baking, frying and broiling of Passenger Pigeons – but first, catch your Passenger Pigeon, which might be a tad difficult today. Yesterday I saw the proofs of my…