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Rangers in Kielder Water & Forest Park are scanning the skies for the return of ospreys which last year nested in Northumberland for the first time in at least 200 years. The Kielder Partnership says it’s likely that the iconic birds will return to nest once again in the 62,000 hectare (155,000 acre) Northumberland wilderness, after the pair
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A County Durham couple have stepped forward to help the region’s threatened woodland birds. Janice and Michael Baker, whose son Matt Baker presents BBC TV’s Countryfile, have shown that a love of the environment runs deep in the family by pledging to improve an 8 hectare (20 acre) ancient wood on their organic sheep farm near Tow Law for species like Pied Flycatcher and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. 
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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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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Marsh harrier chicks celebrating life in Northumberland. Northumberland Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce that up to four Marsh Harrier chicks have recently fledged at its East Chevington reserve. What makes this breeding even more exciting is the fact that this is the first confirmed breeding of Marsh Harriers
[...click on headline to read full story]  Rescuing a trapped bird of prey. Wild birds are suffering from near record levels of persecution. During 2008 the RSPB received 1,206 reports of shooting, poisoning, trapping and disturbance of birds and of the theft of birds and their eggs. While the figure is slightly down from the all-time high of 1,228 reports in 2007, it remains the second highest we’ve ever recorded. Many more incidents are believed to have gone undetected and unreported and the figures include 210 reports of shooting and destruction of birds of prey. As a result, the RSPB is using its annual Birdcrime report to repeat its call for a fundamental shake-up of the way such crimes are policed. Data from the report showed the two worst counties in England for all reported incidents against birds of prey were North Yorkshire with 24 and Derbyshire with 14 reported incidents. In Scotland, problems were worst in Perth and Kinross where there were 18 reported incidents and in the Borders where there were 15. Aberdeenshire, Angus and the Highlands each had 14 reports. The persecution of birds of prey is something the RSPB is campaigning to stop and which Government has declared one of its ‘wildlife crime priorities’. |
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