Patrick Barkham
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Floating scarecrows: how Cornish fishers are stopping seabirds drowning in their nets (opens the original)
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Simple deterrents can slash the number of razorbills and guillemots being trapped underwater, two-year study shows Bird-shaped kites and a floating scarecrow are being tested to try to stop endangered seabirds drowning in fishing nets. Every year an estimated 95,000 diving birds, including razorbills and guillemots, are accidentally caught in nets off European coasts. But simple deterrents tested by Cornish fishers and devised by scientists and the RSPB have been shown to reduce the toll by abou
Floating scarecrows: how Cornish fishers are stopping seabirds drowning in their nets - AOL (opens the original)
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Bird-shaped kites and a floating scarecrow are being tested to try to stop endangered seabirds drowning in fishing nets. Every year an estimated 95,000 diving birds, including razorbills and guillemots, are accidentally caught in nets off European coasts. But simple deterrents tested by Cornish fishers and devised by scientists and the RSPB have been shown to reduce the toll by about two-thirds. The scarecrow – or more properly a looming-eyes buoy – has a spinning head with two large eyes that s
Wildlife arrives on time at rewilded chalk grasslands built along HS2 route - AOL (opens the original)
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The air is scented with the sweet tang of ladies bedstraw and made musical by skylark and blackcap song. An abundance of marbled white butterflies, small skippers and common blue damselflies dart over the flowering knapweed, yarrow and wild carrot. That the largest chalk grassland in the Chilterns is full of wildlife may not surprise you. But the fact that it is completely artificial, only four years old and has been built by the much-maligned HS2, may do. The Western Slopes “rewilding” project
Wildlife arrives on time at rewilded chalk grasslands built along HS2 route (opens the original)
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The trains may be running late, but the Western Slopes project is already attracting birds and insects on lands around the high-speed railway The air is scented with the sweet tang of ladies bedstraw and made musical by skylark and blackcap song. An abundance of marbled white butterflies, small skippers and common blue damselflies dart over the flowering knapweed, yarrow and wild carrot. That the largest chalk grassland in the Chilterns is full of wildlife may not surprise you. But the fact that
Autumn sunshine could extend Britain’s bumper year for butterflies - AOL (opens the original)
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Summer is over, most flowers were frazzled long ago and we might expect to see few butterflies beyond September. But it is not over yet. The reverberations from one of the best butterfly seasons in Britain this century will continue if there is more autumn sunshine. Thanks to extended warm seasons, more species are squeezing in an extra generation. Small coppers are on the wing again alongside large and small whites, while red admirals and peacocks pop out of hibernation to feed on late-flowerin
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