NATURE
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Guest blog – How donations to World Land Trust can be Multiplied Four Times by Andy Langley – Mark Avery
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch…
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RSPB in some trouble – Mark Avery
Indications have been growing for some months that the RSPB is in trouble but it’s no use hiding it any…
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Illegal use of lead ammunition to shoot Mallards continues – Mark Avery
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124014702 This paper looks at lead pellets retrieved from shot Mallards in the 2020/21 shooting season at a time long…
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Guest blog – Viewers May Find Scenes in This Nature Programme Upsetting by Beth Richardson – Mark Avery
Beth is a Sussex-based nature writer who has enjoyed writing for websites, local newspapers and monthly regional and charity magazines.…
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Sunday book review – The Migration Ecology of Birds (2nd edition) by Ian Newton – Mark Avery
This second edition of a book first published in 2008 is a masterwork (but its price is beyond most individual…
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Guest blog – We need to talk about ALAN by Jonathan Wallace – Mark Avery
After studying zoology at university Jonathan was involved in ornithological research and conservation for a number of years in France,…
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Sunday book review – The Volunteers by Carol Donaldson – Mark Avery
This is the story of the relationships between the author and a team of conservation volunteers. It is a tender…
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Sunday book review – The Lie of the Land by Guy Shrubsole – Mark Avery
This is Guy Shrubsole’s best book yet, despite the success of his excellent Who Owns England (reviewed here) and his…
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 25 by John Page – Mark Avery
John Page: Photo: Author John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play…
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Mid-week book review – The Last Crow by Bob Berzins – Mark Avery
Another novel about the murky upland world of somewhere near you? Badgers, grouse moors, lords, rich businessmen, snares, machetes, rifles,…
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