Conservation Measures for Falco eleonorae in Greece is a concise and very interesting website which includes a Google Earth map overlaid with the surprisingly different routes taken by four migrating Eleonora’s Falcons flying from Greece to Madagascar. The site is in English which makes everything a lot easier to follow for most of us I’m sure…

Does the fact that we just lived through the second-hottest year on record and the hottest decade on record mean anything to you?  Or will you keep sticking your head in the increasingly-hot sand?  Granted, a single year’s or a single decade’s numbers aren’t solid evidence of anthropogenic global warming but please shut up about global cooling at least.  Maybe we need to start arguing that angels are causing global warming…

A message from Tim Cleeves of Slender-billed Curlew fame: “The first of Ann Cleeves’ Shetland books, RAVEN BLACK, will be BBC Radio 4’s afternoon play on January 23rd (14.30-15.30). Dramatised by Iain Finlay MacLeod, it also has music by Chris Stout. If you miss the broadcast you can get it from the BBC website on Listen Again for a week after. And if you REALLY like it, you might like to go onto the website again to the feedback section to let them know…” I might just do that Tim!

…but there is a new claim of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker sighting, this one with a picture.  Unfortunately, all that has been released so far is a press release.  I guess we’ll have to wait to see what it is a picture of…