Roger
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World birder though slowing down, bad togger, food grower, family man.
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Good and bad news
While the Westminster debate on grouse shooting was anticlimactic, the decision to finally ban lead shot is most welcome, writes Mark Avery:
While the Westminster debate on grouse shooting was anticlimactic, the decision to finally ban lead shot is most welcome, writes Mark Avery:
Mark Avery: good and bad news
While the Westminster debate on grouse shooting was anticlimactic, the decision to finally ban lead shot is most welcome, writes Mark Avery.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Good and bad news
While the Westminster debate on grouse shooting was anticlimactic, the decision to finally ban lead shot is most welcome, writes Mark Avery:
While the Westminster debate on grouse shooting was anticlimactic, the decision to finally ban lead shot is most welcome, writes Mark Avery:
Remembering Costa Rica earlier this year. Keel billed Toucan and Blue Jeans Poison Dart Frog.
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Remembering Costa Rica earlier this year. Keel billed Toucan and Blue Jeans Poison Dart Frog.
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Tentative signs of recovery in insectivorous birds in France following ban of neonicotinoid pesticides in 2018 - but further actions needed to recover populations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Weak recovery of insectivorous bird populations after ban of neonicotinoids in France, hinting at lasting impacts
Neonicotinoids are expected to play a significant role in the decline of bird populations through their adverse effects on food resources (primarily i…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Tentative signs of recovery in insectivorous birds in France following ban of neonicotinoid pesticides in 2018 - but further actions needed to recover populations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Such a tranquil place and a haven for wildlife. This should not be happening. Please repost :-)
www.ywt.org.uk/news/derwent...
www.ywt.org.uk/news/derwent...
Derwent Hunt trespasses again at Chafer Wood nature reserve | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
On the 15th November, the Derwent Hunt once again trespassed into our Chafer Wood nature reserve near Ebberston.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Such a tranquil place and a haven for wildlife. This should not be happening. Please repost :-)
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www.ywt.org.uk/news/derwent...
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More than three years have passed since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for gardening, yet official documentation is still to appear and peat extraction continues:
UK peat extraction continues three years on from ban being announced
More than three years have passed since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for gardening, yet official documentation is still to appear and peat extraction continues. On 27 August 2022, the Conservative Government promised to ban the sale of horticultural peat by 2024
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September 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
More than three years have passed since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for gardening, yet official documentation is still to appear and peat extraction continues:
Black Woodpecker NW Latvia, a great place for birding. Pic by A. Butler.
May 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Black Woodpecker NW Latvia, a great place for birding. Pic by A. Butler.
Swifts back breeding in a box on our house in Headingley, thanks to Leeds Swifts
May 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Swifts back breeding in a box on our house in Headingley, thanks to Leeds Swifts
Very early breeding pied flycatchers seen feeding young on 20 April, high up in Nidderdale have chicks near to fledging now. Also Mandarins with 8 ducklings nearby. Up north birds get on with it :-)
May 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Very early breeding pied flycatchers seen feeding young on 20 April, high up in Nidderdale have chicks near to fledging now. Also Mandarins with 8 ducklings nearby. Up north birds get on with it :-)
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This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heard– yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
March 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is one of the most gruesome raptor persecution cases I have ever heard– yet incidents like this take place up and down the country every single year .
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
It must end , please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting now govpetition.uk/700036
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A survey in southern Chile has led to the discovery of six previously unknown Magellanic Penguin colonies:
New Magellanic Penguin colonies found in Chile
A survey in southern Chile has led to the discovery of six previously unknown Magellanic Penguin colonies. The six colonies were found on Rupert and Tuckers Islets, and James and Monmouth Islands. Magellanic Penguin is a burrow-nester and breeds colonially along the coast of South America.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A survey in southern Chile has led to the discovery of six previously unknown Magellanic Penguin colonies:
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Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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There is no place for the bird shooting industry
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There is no place for the bird shooting industry
Grey mongoose. India.
February 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Grey mongoose. India.
Himalayan grey langur. Old men of the trees.
February 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Himalayan grey langur. Old men of the trees.
Messing about in Costa Rica: Yellow-throated toucan; poison dart frog; rufous-tailed hummingbird.
January 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Messing about in Costa Rica: Yellow-throated toucan; poison dart frog; rufous-tailed hummingbird.
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“You’re not the far-right man for the job”
The new Private Eye is out now
The new Private Eye is out now
January 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“You’re not the far-right man for the job”
The new Private Eye is out now
The new Private Eye is out now
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Great grey shrike on dallowgill moor, nidderdale late afternoon. 🪶
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December 13, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Great grey shrike on dallowgill moor, nidderdale late afternoon. 🪶
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Meet Jeremy Clarkson. He’s used his show Clarkson’s Farm to blame badgers for spreading bTB and has reportedly shot all the badgers on his land.
He’d absolutely hate it if you shared this and signed the petition to end the badger cull 👇https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317
He’d absolutely hate it if you shared this and signed the petition to end the badger cull 👇https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317
December 14, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Meet Jeremy Clarkson. He’s used his show Clarkson’s Farm to blame badgers for spreading bTB and has reportedly shot all the badgers on his land.
He’d absolutely hate it if you shared this and signed the petition to end the badger cull 👇https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317
He’d absolutely hate it if you shared this and signed the petition to end the badger cull 👇https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317
