Buzzard shot: North Yorkshire Police issued the following press release.

North Yorkshire Police are investigating an incident in which a Buzzard was shot in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

A dead buzzard was found on 1 February 2017 in an area called High Skelding, near the village of Grantley It was in a small coniferous plantation close to where the Ripon Rowel footpath […]

February 23rd, 2017 | Category: Bird of Prey Persecution, Buzzard | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Human Disturbance likely cause for the failure of Bowland Peregrine nest in 2016

   

In the above video, Terry Pickford talks about his concern at the failure and abandonment in April 2016 of potentially the Forest of Bowland’s only occupied Peregrine Falcon territory. Terry highlights the possible cause be believes resulted in the desertion of the territory, the only occupied nest he was aware of in the […]

February 23rd, 2017 | Category: ban driven grouse shooting, Bird of Prey Persecution, gamekeepers, Grouse Moors, Grouse shooting, Peregrines, Raptor Persecution, red grouse | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

American Birds need the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to survive.

Birds Need The EPA To Oversee Pesticides (And So Do We All) American ready for a return to the Dirty Sixties? Some in Congress seem to be!

The 1960’s was the decade of the Vietnam war, civil rights protests, and humankind’s first steps on the moon. But it was also a decade of pollution.

Among […]

February 23rd, 2017 | Category: American Bald Eagle, Peregrines, pesticides | Comments are closed