Three years, 2.6 million Roving Records, 2.9 million BirdTrack records and 144,000 timed counts on…
Durham Bird Club has been awarded £30,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for an innovative new avifauna of the county. The Birds of Durham Heritage Project is much more than a book, however, although it will culminate in the publication of the first overview of the county’s birds for 60 years. The project sets out to ‘Bring the wildlife of the past to the people of tomorrow’…
Often seen hovering over motorway verges on the lookout for small rodents, the Common Kestrel is one of our most well-known birds of prey. However, all is not well with this roadside hunter…
The Great Bustard reintroduction project has confirmed improved breeding success this year with at least four nests and four chicks…
Natural England has announced that a breeding colony of Eurasian Spoonbills has been nesting at Holkham NNR in Norfolk this summer…
The RSPB is celebrating a double whammy of breeding herons with the confirmed nesting of Little Bitterns at its Ham Wall reserve in Somerset. The news comes hard on the heels of the announcement that Britain’s first breeding Purple Herons have successfully fledged at least one youngster at RSPB Dungeness in Kent…
Perhaps the first casualty of the forecast deep cuts in public expenditure will be High Level Stewardship (HLS) payments, which have been channelled to farmers in England and Wales to reverse the alarming decline in farmland birds. The RSPB is understandably concerned about the future of HLS…
The UK Government has primed the British public for deep cuts in public expenditure and it seems that the countryside will not be spared. The conservation agency Natural England could cut nearly a third of its 2,500 staff – 800 jobs – if and when an expected 30% budget cut is imposed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)…
Two out of five of the UK’s natural World Heritage sites are in danger of being added to a blacklist because non-native rats and mice are killing and eating the unique bird species confined to them. At a UNESCO meeting in Brasilia in early August, the UK Government was warned that the outstanding natural qualities for which Henderson Island, in the Pacific, was listed would be jeopardised if rats are allowed to continue plundering unique seabirds and their eggs…
The 2007 Irish Rare Bird Report (IRBR) was completed ahead of schedule for its publication in Irish Birds Vol. 8, No. 4…
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