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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 20d

...2/2 well rendered, ie recognisable through key features, postures or movement; humans more stylised or simply sloppy (humans know what humans look like, after all). Most of the less successful animal images appear to have been abandoned unfinished.

Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 20d

When I first mooted this as most likely the extinct great auk in 2016, it was partly based on the same assessment now published by Birkhead and Montgomerie in @bou.org.uk Ibis. But the artistic context of the whole #Alta site is also a factor. Generally, the hundreds of animal images are ... 1/2

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 20d

My photo published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social earlier this year has prompted this carefully considered paper. I wrote about my encounter with this ghost of an extinct species in my book The Long Spring #naturewriting

BOU @bou.org.uk · 20d

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Tim R. Birkhead, Robert Montgomerie | #ornithology 🪶

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 20d

Glad to see my photo and description in The Long Spring has prompted further investigation and, no doubt, debate.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 20d

The Door-to-Door Poet, out today, is ‘a funny, self-aware chronicle of the year Rowan McCabe spent in pursuit of a madly brilliant project’, says NARC. magazine. Read more about that project in their interview with Rowan here
narcmagazine.com/interview-ro...

INTERVIEW: Rowan McCabe

Fran Harvey chats to the poet and performer about his book which chronicles his year of taking spoken word to the doorsteps of the UK

narcmagazine.com

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 28d

Looking forward to returning to Leeds RSPB as part of this programme.

RSPB Leeds Local Group @rspbleedslocalgr.bsky.social · 28d

A full list of our Indoor Meetings and Coach Trips for the 2025/2026 Season is now available on our website. Please click on the link below for more information! #Leeds
group.rspb.org.uk/leeds/news-b...
Photo courtesy of Jonathan (our newsletter and website editor)

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 28d

So very proud to have grown up with the RSPB, to have grown my children up with the RSPB & written for it for 21 yrs now. Exciting to see it respond, adapt, embrace, move & change. Birds & nature increasingly bring us together, to shape & connect the world around us. And that needs all of us.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 28d

www.eye-books.com/books/flint-pb

Flint by Joanne Bourne | Eye Books

Fusing science, poetry, history and a deep love of landscape, Joanne Bourne pays tribute to flint, the magical and deeply practical stone made from sea creatures which has been part of human developme...

www.eye-books.com

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 28d

Tomorrow we publish the paperback edition of Flint, Joanne Bourne’s deeply personal love letter to the magical stone that has fuelled three million years of human development. Order it direct from us for the next week and save 30%. Link ⤵️

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 29d

GOOD NEWS: the peat burning ban is being extended in the English uplands. 👏

Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.

We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.

A Golden Plover stands alert among the reddish-brown heather and grasses of upland peatland. Its mottled gold and black plumage blends with the landscape, a reminder that these precious habitats are home to rare and remarkable wildlife.

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 29d

Lovely recce visit to Bottoms Mill for Saturday's Nature Writing Walk with River Holme Connections. Dippers on the river and a forest in the sky await. www.riverholmeconnections.org/event/nature...

Nature Writing Walk with Laurence Rose - River Holme Connections

www.riverholmeconnections.org

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Sep 8

So that's Windhover finished and sent off, and ahead of deadline. Stay tuned for publication date, publisher info. etc. #naturewriting

Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Aug 15

Final editing of the 8th and final draft of the new book before it goes off to the publisher.
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice

Laurence editing his new book in the garden

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · Sep 6

Happy #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay

Vultures are natures all-important clean-up crew, but in South Asia have hugely declined

Find out how Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) partners are working to fix this 🌏 🪶

RSPB Species Spotlight: tinyurl.com/6mxxucf7

Three vultures stand in a row on the ground as if waiting for something. The two to the left have black bodies with prominent white collars (White-rumped Vulture – Gyps bengalensis) and the one the right is coloured light brown (Indian Vulture - Gyps indicus). The vultures are labelled to highlight some adaptations for their lifestyle: Huge wingspans for low effort flight, scouting large areas for carrion. Excellent eyesight for spotting carrion. Bald heads so food doesn’t get stuck when they’re eating. Long, hooked beaks for tearing at meat. Strong stomachs for eating rotting meat.

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Aug 23

Couldn't make it this year but looking forward to next year's!

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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · Aug 16

The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Aug 15

Final editing of the 8th and final draft of the new book before it goes off to the publisher.
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice

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Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social · Aug 15

Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to my former @rspbengland.bsky.social colleague Matt Howard. I thoroughly recommend Broadlands.

ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 12

The WINNERS of the 2025 ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE are:

William Henry Searle, 'Elowen' - Creative Prose

Matt Howard, 'Broadlands' - Poetry

Joanna Allan, 'Saharan Winds' - Critical

Many congratulations!

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 10

Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations to @bsbicountries.bsky.social James Harding-Morris on publication day. Got it, read it already! (Well I was writing a cover endorsement for it, tbh). Really important that we recognise the 700+(!) UK endemic species as a special responsibility. #naturewriting

James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s the big day! After four years of research, writing and editing (and procrastination, terror and imposter syndrome), Endemic has now been released to the world.

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Ian Carter @iancarter67.bsky.social · Aug 1

An excellent review. The first I’ve seen to appreciate that this book has a clear agenda from the outset. Most readers have fallen for the ‘fair and balanced’ line in the blurb. Not Sam Hackney:
www.britishwildlife.com/uncommon-gro...

Uncommon Ground - British Wildlife

Uncommon Ground Patrick Galbraith Uncommon Ground by Patrick Galbraith is a punchy and well-written ‘establishment’ take on the enduring discourse surrounding the public’s right to access the countrys...

www.britishwildlife.com

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Jul 31

It's an important subject that as far as I know hasn't been covered before, and very entertainingly written. As I say on the back cover!

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · Jul 31

This feels like the perfect post to reply to and announce this - but my book, Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain, which includes a chapter on the No Parking Whitebeam, comes out a week today.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

In September we publish The Door-to-Door Poet, RowanMcCabe’s joyful and thoughtful portrayal of his unusual mission to write verse for strangers. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/yHchl

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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · Jul 19

I knew his brother Humphrey when he was on the RSPB's governing Council. He told me that as children they were both into birdwatching and music. I think Humphrey played the cello if I remember correctly.

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