• Egg collecting: a dangerous obsession
    This summer police made the biggest seizure of eggs in a decade. Jenny Shelton of RSPB Investigations explains more about this deadly obsession which puts declining species at risk. Nature is in trouble...
  • Chicks rescued from egg collection
    The RSPB has just issued the following release: Three golden plover chicks and one curlew chick are getting a second chance at life after being found, as eggs, in a property in Huddersfield. Two...
  • Egg thief collects a six-month prison sentence
    He stood in the dock and told the court he was sorry, that the bird breeding season was a stressful time for him and that his problem was that he associated with other collectors, who fuel his obsession...
  • Countdown - 2, ours?
    The UK Overseas Territories are a funny collection of places, mostly islands, which speak volumes about the UK's colonial past. We will go to war to protect their sovereignty but will we protect their...
  • Countdown - 1, guess what?
    The most common subject on this blog has been farming and the decline of farmland birds (and there are lots of extracts in the book of the blog ). Be in no doubt - many farmland birds have declined...