Getting closer to nature

Visitors to the region’s newest museum are getting closer to a wide range of Northumbrian nature with the help of a £20,000 grant from a local developer.

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums has used the funding from the Banks Group, via its Banks Community Fund, to pay for electronic interactive equipment in four learning areas which are built to resemble wildlife observation hides.

The hides are now in use at the Natural Northumbria

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Bird lovers choose Kate for president

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Kate Humble

Television presenter Kate Humble has been elected as the new president of the RSPB.

The organisation is confident Kate’s infectious enthusiasm for wildlife and wild places will inspire millions of people to get closer to nature.

She

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Birds that bathe make a cleaner getaway

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Four European Starlings including juveniles bathing in a garden fountain. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.

Newcastle University scientists investigating why starlings bathe so often have discovered it alters their escape behaviour.

And clean birds make the most accurate flyers.

When

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