This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. It is easy to assume that most non-humans conform to a basic breeding model. Boys court girl, most impressive boy wins girl, he passes on his genes and then he may or may not stick around …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of American writer John McPhee until I read a recommendation by Robert Macfarlane a few years ago. McPhee’s book on Alaska, Coming into the Country, had just been …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. When you think of urban wildlife, you might think of gulls, sparrows, starlings and pigeons. However, once you start to look a bit closer at the wildlife around our towns and cities, you soon realise just …
When I first visited Shetland 11 years ago, one of the many highlights was a dusk trip over to the small island of Mousa, an RSPB reserve. Mousa is famous for two things. The first is the most complete Iron Age broch still standing, of which more in a moment. The second claim to fame …
My bird of the month for June is a bit of a cheat as I want to talk about a pair of species: Arctic and common terns. These very similar looking summer migrants can be difficult to tell apart without good views. The amalgamation of the two names, ‘commic tern’, can be useful in these …
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