10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. The following May she was found on a nest with four eggs at RAF Honnington (four miles from my home) by Harry Ewing, an ecologist with Natural England.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
Which is the story of how I ended up using Britain’s Dragonflies: A field guide to the damselflies and dragonflies of Britain and Ireland, 2 nd edition, by David Smallshire & Andy Swash to successfully identify my French dragonflies and damselflies. I’m going to look at Britain’s Dragonflies first.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2020
But seeing as the month is also bookended by Hogmanay and Burns Night, we’ll gladly take the opportunity to visit– in spirits, at least – the rugged Celtic landscapes of Scotland and Ireland where whiskey was born and – with luck – have a look at the birds that inhabit them.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2015
Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). Did you know for example that some species of bee are cleptoparasites , exploiting the nests of other species for their own eggs.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Second they are reliant on Horseshoe Vetch on which they lay their eggs and on which the caterpillars feed. I have invested in a book, “The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland” by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Lewington, from which most of the information above has been transposed. The male is on the left.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2018
Not wishing to disturb the bird, Kevin resigned to hold his reverent stance until the eggs she laid hatched and the young blackbirds fledged, which he did with stoic perseverance for weeks. According to one legend, Kevin was kneeling in prayer one day when a blackbird alighted on his outstretched hand and began to build a nest.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Karlson, 2006, HMH), author of T he Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds (2011, PUP), and co-author of The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland (with Dominic Couzens, 2013, PUP) and The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors (with Jerry Liguori and Brian L. Sullivan, 2013, PUP). Barker and Carrol L. Harrison, 2005, PUP).
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