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• An unlikely long-distance traveller

  11 Sep 2014: Country diary: Mickleton, Teesdale: By the time the leaves have fallen here the redstart may well be catching flies stirred up by hooves of gazelles in Morocco

• Birds of North America under threat from climate change – in pictures

  9 Sep 2014: Warming temperatures are reducing the range of several of North America’s iconic birds, including United States’ national bird the bald eagle, affecting over 300 species and pushing many towards extinction
  

• North America's key birds facing extinction, study finds

  9 Sep 2014: 314 species, including the bald eagle and 10 state birds of US at risk from climate change

• How to set up your own Operation Owl

  8 Sep 2014: A small Woking group have set up to encourage the owl population in their area; here’s how you can do it too
  

• Operation Owl: boxes help save these beautiful bellwethers of biodiversity

  8 Sep 2014: A Woking-based volunteer group strives to create habitats for these nocturnal birds and inspire children to help in conservation, discovers Patrick Barkham
  

• 50 years ago: The mysteries of Meon Hill

  7 Sep 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 9 September 1964: At the top of Meon Hill I lay on an earth ramp where once there had been a Neolithic fort. I thought the whole world was asleep in the heat of this summer afternoon

• Murmuration over Otmoor

  6 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: Tens of thousands of starlings produce spectacular sky shows with their movements at sunset as they gather together every evening during autumn and winter.

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

  5 Sep 2014: Fish-snatching eagles, whales and rare brown hyenas are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world

• Approval to build 5,000 homes on nightingale habitat condemned

  5 Sep 2014: Move to replace songbirds’ only breeding site in the UK is unscientific and unprecedented, says RSPB

• Oddly sustainable: birds get robot protectors

  5 Sep 2014: In this week’s journey to the strange side of sustainability, phone books score low and organic food may be losing its snobbishness

• This ‘divers’ raft’ looked so naturalised it could easily be taken for a real one

  5 Sep 2014: Country diary: Ullapool, Highlands: The black-throated divers’ main problem with nesting is their legs. These are set far back, which assists them when swimming but makes them clumsy on land

• Pregnant Mascarene petrel shows off ginormous egg bump as she soars over open seas: picture

  4 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: Ornithological paparazzi snapped photos of the critically endangered seabird south of Réunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean.

• Reserves and parks not enough to protect nature – David Attenborough

  3 Sep 2014: Broadcaster calls for radical new approach to conservation, urging people to use all spaces from gardens to roadside verges to help wildlife

• Before there were none

  3 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: What was it like to witness a flock of passenger pigeons flying overhead? What did this spectacle look and sound like? Start by imagining a murmuration of starlings multiplied by a thousand times ...

• The passenger pigeon by Errol Fuller - review

  2 Sep 2014: GrrlScientist: written by an artist and authority on extinct species, this book shares rare photographs and other visual materials to provide a general overview to the history of the extinct passenger pigeon.

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