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Farmland bird populations in sharp decline, Government figures show

29 July 2010

Overall farmland bird populations in England fell by 5 per cent last year to their lowest level for 40 years, according to official figures released today (July 29, 2010).

Lapwing - adult female in breeding habitat pasture

Government asks RSPB members to share their views on the environment

29 July 2010

Defra have asked for your views on its new natural environment White Paper

Bugs-eye view of wet meadow in flower

“Just one cornetto – give it to”....your housemartins

28 July 2010

OK so birds don’t like ice cream. But what some of the visiting birds raising their young in the UK this summer would love, are your empty ice cream or margarine tubs. The tubs make ideal homes for breeding house martins when theirs are damaged by the weather, says the RSPB.

House martin chicks in replacement ice-cream tub nest

Threatened woodland butterfly takes flight in East Sussex and Kent once more

27 July 2010

The Pearl-Bordered Fritillary, one of the UK's rarest woodland butterflies, has spread its wings again in the woodlands of East Sussex and Kent where it previously became extinct. A pioneering conservation project by the Forestry Commission, Butterfly Conservation and the RSPB is helping to secure the future of this woodland butterfly.

Pearl-bordered fritillary

Farmers needed to help save the disappearing turtle dove

21 July 2010

Farmers are being asked to help scientists work out why turtle doves are disappearing from our countryside.

Juvenile turtle dove on ground

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