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hello! My name is Michael Butler and iam in my final year at Sheffield Hallam. iam currently studying environmental conservation and as part of my course i need to complete a dissertation. . the title of my dissertation is named Human impacts on birdlife in the Yorkshire region: an assessment of historic...

Hi everyone, I have just moved house with my parents and we are fortunate to have a piece of communal garden that is great for filming birds and wilflife. Has anyone got any tips on how to get the best footage in my garden? Thank you Carl.

Thanks again Claire. The reason is I am heartbroken because of what happened to my almost 5 months old seagull I saved when blown out of its nest, I named the baby seagull Wee, for little freedom, and I nursed Wee from only 3 days old baby seagull. Wee accepted me as the foster parent, visited me every...

Hi Mrs T, thanks for worrying for me but so far I consider this community of bird lovers perfectly safe. I read a report about birds raised in LG, and that they were tagged so their whereabouts could be tracked. How were they tagged? Is it a unique metal thread that can be tracked by receiving data feed...

We have had Kestrels in our garden on many occasions and when this bird was in the pine tree and partly hidden we thought that it was another one. However when it perched obligingly on the fence and we saw it's plumage we knew that it was something different! I've looked on various sites on the...

I posted my request under subject, what I wanted to say is that it is larger than a Thrush and has a dark central mark on it's white head and a black chinstrap.

i live in southend and get sparrows, robins, starlings in the garden. i have seen a pied wagtail when i have been out in the street but it has never been in the garden. How do i attract it into my garden??

Hi i have just started a blog to try and learn about nature and birds and encourage them into the garden. `Its quite an expansive area and i have no knowledge whatsoever. If any of you out there would like to take a look at my blog and let me know if its on the right lines that would be brill....

Hi everyone.! I was just wondering if anyone would be able to help me with a project I am doing. I'm basically after a list of the most popular RSPB nature reserves. Does anyone have one or know where I could get hold of one? Thanks.

Hi , I have just joined and this is my first post as I have a question that I'm hoping people can help me with , I live by a motorway and it's very wooded , untill the last couple of weeks we had all kinds of birds, Robins , Sparrows etc , I had a wooden birdtable in the garden. We have at least...

Hi, I'm new to the site. I need help with a bird bath. I've made a bird bath out of a tree trunk slice but need to make it waterproof. Is it OK to use yacht varnish on it as I don't want to harm the birds? Thanks

Hello all! My name is Seth and I am co-founder of a new yearly charity event called the Big Twitch. Some work colleagues and I are setting out on May 13th and 14th with the aim of spotting as many species of bird in 48 hours as possible. The more species we see, the more money we raise for charity...