The poor old pigeon, it’s not very well liked is it? Even its name “Feral Pigeon” sounds dirty and unwanted. But wherever you live in Britain, if you are in a town or city – you will be lucky enough to see them, often I know, I know – Sky Rats, they are called, and […]
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Not all Blackbirds are Black Birds: DIVERSIFLY BLOG #2
Blackbirds are really easy to identify aren’t they?… I mean even from this rather poor attempt at a drawing, by me – I think almost everyone would be able to tell it was a blackbird. And they would be right. Well, half right… For the female blackbird is a brown colour, has a brown beak and […]
Poems for Maligned Species ebooks welcomed !!
Happy New Year from the Maligned Species project! We do hope you have been enjoying the podcasts and the writing from our four ecologists and nine poets. Maligned Species is an Arts Council England funded project – hoping to encourage YOU to write poetry with a more scientific slant than you are, perhaps, used to… […]
On meeting Brett Westwood
Visiting naturalist Brett Westwood, and walking with him round the block, in Stourbridge, West Midlands I had met Brett once before – when he had very kindly travelled up to Morville in Shropshire to listen to poetry and see some art in Morville Church, hosted by Katherine Swift, author of The Morville Hours: at the […]
Podcast on spiders, by Brett Westwood
Welcome! Here is a podcast on Spiders: Brett Westwood tells us why we find spiders in the bath, as well as many fascinating facts about these eight-legged creatures – we hope you enjoy it [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227888090″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Part of the Maligned Species project: a free online resource involving both ecologists and poets – […]
Why Maligned Species?
Why are we running this project? Our editor, Nadia Kingsley noticed that, when she was editing our very first book Shropshire Butterflies – a poetic and artistic guide to the butterflies of Shropshire that there is an accepted general love for butterflies, and a general dislike for moths – some of which are far more […]
