We live for the pack. We play we run We rest together, When our day is done. When one of us is ill, We pick up the slack, Bringing food and comfort Until good health comes back. We chase our prey, We have to eat. We do this to survive, No easy feat. But love […]
What Wildlife Can You See In London?
London, the capital of England. Bustling with diverse culture, Big Ben, Parliament, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey. So many things to see and do but what about nature lovers who want to escape the concrete landscape and experience some wildlife? Here’s what wildlife you can see in London… London Zoo The world’s oldest scientific zoo […]
Beyond The Cove: what happened after the Oscar-winning documentary?
The 2009 documentary The Cove, which depicted the practice of corralling and slaughtering dolphins in a small bay tinged crimson from the blood, has visited a bewildering past decade upon the small Japanese town of Taiji. An outburst of international outrage at Taiji’s 400-year-old practice of dolphin hunting saw activists descend upon the coastal town […]
Birding the Abha Area
Whilst birding the Abha area recently we went to Azeeza to look for Blandford’s Short-toed Larks as birds had been seen here by us in previous years. The area has had some building and construction work done in the last couple of years and despite quite extensive searching we failed to find any birds. Very […]
Scotland’s mountain hare population is at just 1% of 1950’s level
Culling by grouse moor managers is being blamed for the drastic decline of mountain hares on eastern Scottish moorlands to less than 1% of the level recorded more than 60 years ago. A long-term study by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the RSPB analysed counts of the animals on moorland managed for red […]
Dirtballin’
How embarrassing. I am still here, sort of. Been out at a really remote field site the last couple months and am venturing (somewhat unwillingly and very awkwardly) back into society at the moment. I had my first real shower in two months just yesterday- HA! I’m a huge dirtball and I just don’t care. […]
Cardinal, Read
What goes on inside your head, Said the little cardinal, red. What thoughts and moments Swirl about Do they whisper Or do they shout
In protecting songbirds, Indonesia ruffles owners & breeders’ feathers
JAKARTA — Songbird owners in Indonesia are up in arms over the recent inclusion of hundreds of bird species in the national list of protected animals. The owners plan to protest outside the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in Central Jakarta on Aug. 14, according to the Indonesian Songbird Fan Club (FKMI), a coalition of owners’ […]