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26 common British birds and how to spot them

We are fortunate to have many beautiful British birds throughout the country. Some visit our gardens, others are found only ...
Nature

A Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin British Birds' Nests: How, where, and when to find and identify them British Sea Birds A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain

“THE Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin,” by Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley, is the latest addition to the series being issued by them on the Vertebrate fauna of Scotland. They have already given ...
Yahoo

Giant British bird once hunted to near-extinction for its taste makes a comeback

A British bird, once considered so delicious that it was nearly hunted to extinction 500 years ago, is making a comeback. Once widespread in the UK, cranes were heavily hunted until the Elizabethan ...
Nature

A History of British Birds

“YARRELL'S British Birds”is without doubt one of the best known and most widely appreciated books on Natural History ever published in this country, and has probably done more than any other work to ...
The Economist

A few bird species are faring amazingly well in Britain

Phil hyde was walking in Norfolk in 1979, feeling rather disconsolate after missing a rare rose-coloured starling, when a little egret suddenly appeared, to excited shouts from other birders. The ...
The Conversation

What makes a good bird name?

Andrew Gosler has received funding from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council. I remember my first close encounter with birds. I must have been about three years old and had discovered a ...
JSTOR Daily

Bird Diversity and Environmental Gradients in Britain: A Test of the Species-Energy Hypothesis

1. We tested the species diversity-energy hypothesis using the British bird fauna. This predicts that temperature patterns should match diversity patterns. We also tested the hypothesis that the ...
The Conversation

Endangered British birds to be killed under permits – here’s how that could fuel an illegal pan-European trade

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 694995). Although the permits ...
The Economist

Making music from the sounds of endangered British birds

FOR SOME city-dwellers there was at least one pleasing consequence of lockdown: the sharp drop in noise pollution meant that the chirps and trills of wood pigeons, sparrows, owls and finches could be ...