Welcome to the first of 7 podcasts from the DIVERSIFLY project. In this podcast you will join Brett Westwood and Nadia Kingsley on an Urban Bird Walk, in the centre of Stourbridge, West Midlands Brett jointly won the Thomson Reuters/Zoological Record Award for Communicating Zoology with Stephen Moss for the book and radio series Tweet of the Day, […]
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Beyond Spring on the Guardian’s Best Nature Book of 2017 list!!
I am so happy to share this news… Stephen Moss who annually writes an article called The best nature books of 2017 has said this about Beyond Spring by Matthew Oates, and Fair Acre Press: Small, independent publishers such as Safe Haven continue to outperform in this field. Another example is Fair Acre, which persuaded […]
Ending Swiftly: DIVERSIFLY BLOG #18
As this is the last of my blogs for the URBAN BIRDS project – the swift came to mind… Thanks to you all for reading these blogs – I hope you have enjoyed them – and, hopefully, are taking part in the project! This Blog is part of the DIVERSIFLY project: For more details go here Swifts […]
A bit of a tit : DIVERSIFLY BLOG #12
First things first: let’s just for a moment deal with the word ‘tit’. Since the nineteenth century, it has been used as a slang word for breast, but its origins come from early-fourteenth-century usage meaning ‘small’ or ‘a small creature’. Hope that clears things up. So says Bill Bailey in his Remarkable Guide to British […]
Fancy Pigeons?: DIVERSIFLY BLOG #5
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 […]
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 […]
