10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2024
Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. and for many years Bill (at the time probably Britain’s most high-profile birder) was sponsored by the German company.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2014
This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children. The photograph in local papers did not show the brand of poison, but the colors on the package were like those of D-Con. Read that again: it has no antidote.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2020
An excellent whisky selection for any Burns Supper is the The Famous Grouse, which is not only the best-selling brand of whisky in Scotland but also features the best-known bird in the world of whisky. As a brand name, “The Famous Grouse” makes for a rather boastful claim – particularly with that obligatory definite article.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 20, 2009
We haven’t tried them out ourselves, but it makes good sense to protect one of your biggest investments, your furniture! Sure Fit, a 95 year-old leading slipcover company is now introducing its first ever Pet Cover, for use on both home furniture and in transit. Here’s another great product idea for people with pets!
Animal Person
AUGUST 6, 2009
Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. 3) George W.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Gooddie gets the book off to a quick start by describing his love affair with pittas (“the ultimate forest prize”), and detailing his decision to give up a good career as sales director of an audio manufacturing company (“my life was out of whack”). The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
In addition to co-authoring and editing many of the company’s field guides, he is a nature photographer with a portfolio of thousands of bird, dragonfly and butterfly images. . It is Herperia comma, the skipper we call Common Branded Skipper, a smaller orange-brownish skipper with several white spots on its hindwings.
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