Sentences with phrase «mereshead rspb»

RSPB have at least three fantastic home education resources: WildSquare gets you involved in surveys that cover a one kilometer square area near your home.

Founded around the same time as Mass Audubon, the RSPB is one of the largest conservation organizations in the world.

This weekend was the RSPB's big garden bird watch - a survey of garden birds in the UK.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

A Natural England report commissioned from organisations including the RSPB, has suggested pest control such as the «killing of foxes» as one of several «key adaptation actions» to assist «priority species».

From a joint letter to the Telegraph opposing plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary, signed by Christian Aid, Cafod, RSPB, Friends of the Earth, Tearfund, WWF, Greenpeace UK, World Development Movement, Portsmouth Climate Action Network, Airport Watch, Swindon Climate Action Network, Plantlife, Artists Project Earth, UK Youth Climate Coalition, Surfers Against Sewage, Climate Alliance — January 2012

And Corbyn took nine months of badgering to agree to meet the major environmental charities, including Greenpeace and the RSPB, only for him to cancel it when the shadow environment secretary, Kerry McCarthy, who had been organising the event, resigned a fortnight ago.

The event, which is free to attend, will feature talks by Dr Pat Thompson, RSPB Uplands Conservation Officer, and Dennis Hailes from BASC insurance brokers, Marsh.

Matt's mother - in - law works for the RSPB at Freiston Shore and his father - in - law's a long - serving science teacher at Boston Grammar.

BASC has become a signatory to the UK Squirrel accord which brings together 30 other organisations, including the RSPB, Defra and the National Trust, with the aim of securing and expanding the red squirrel population.

BASC chairman Peter Glenser said: «While Birdlife International and the RSPB highlight issues which need to be addressed around raptor persecution, there is a need for clearer thinking on the implications for legislation.

A huge range of voluntary organisations, campaign groups and charities — from the umbrella organisation, the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to the TUC, the Royal British Legion to the RSPB, Oxfam to Unlock Democracy — have joined 38 Degrees in stark warnings about the damage that part II of the government bill would inflict on open debate.

They found that four species had shrunk by up to 4 per cent in 100 years (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1011).

Now her team has analysed the immune system's key controller genes for the first time and found that resistant devils have genes that equip them to attack the disease (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.2362).

«It would be especially advantageous to reduce the weight of the head because [it] is further from the centre of gravity,» they write (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.0885).

Live mosquitoes captured in the holds of aircraft arriving on the Galapagos from mainland Ecuador were found to survive and breed on the islands (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.0998).

They painted pupae with both odours and found that males rarely returned to linalool - daubed pupae but would happily re-perch on those perfumed with furanoid (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1476).

In hot conditions the crocs also took fewer dives lasting longer than 50 minutes, making on average just one such dive in summer compared with 12 in winter (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2010.09.02).

The team found that the second group took more attempts to get the task right, suggesting that dogs are indeed subject to automatic imitation (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2010.1142).

This showed that horns were most likely in conspicuous species — those living in open habitats and large enough to be clearly visible to predators — suggesting that they evolved as defensive weapons (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1256).

They also took more second glances (Proceedings of Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1456).

The other feathers did not produce the noise, suggesting they are instead responsible for radiating the sound (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1576).

Peter Newbery of the RSPB says: «It's an interesting situation, but the ecology is very complicated and we need more research.»

The RSPB hires graduates to work on nature reserves as wardens, or as fund - raisers and policy - makers.

Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2010.0155 (Image: Julian Finn / Museum Victoria)

To make yourself more marketable, it helps to have a particular skill, says David Gibbons, head of conservation science at the RSPB.

They push back the origins of the lineage and show that it evolved immediately after the end of the Permian extinction — the biggest clear - out of life the world has ever seen, when 95 per cent of animal species went extinct (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2010.1746).

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According to a survey of body shapes in 347 fish families, those with vertical spines tend to have deeper bodies, and those with horizontal spines tend to have wider bodies (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2015.1428).

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The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

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«Large - scale peatland restoration projects such as the Sustainable Catchment Management Project run by United Utilities and RSPB are crucial in helping to make our blanket bogs resilient to climate change.»

«The frightening aspect is the quantity of birds being sold when we don't know anything about the state of the wild populations,» says Chris Harbard of the RSPB.

Investigators from the RSPB and its Dutch counterpart have uncovered a massive trade in wild birds between China and Europe.

A second experiment confirmed that the illusion was stronger when the expectation of being touched was present than when it was absent (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.1140).

RSPB was the first to compile a state of the birds report, 15 years ago, in part to bring recognition to the country's dedicated volunteer bird surveyors and in part to put their tallies to good use.

It uses some of the same long - term data as the climate change report and as a «collective statement of both governmental and non-governmental organizations... [it] presents a more accurate picture» of where birds stand, says Mark Eaton, a conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, U.K.

Rodriguez - Lanetty used genetic sequencing to show no such changes occurred (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2011.1780).

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Groups that were more genetically different turned out to have significantly more differences in their behaviours (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2010.1112).

Tseng and his colleagues have uncovered a partial skull, a jawbone and a few teeth belonging to a species of big cat in the Zanda basin in the south - west Tibetan plateau, dated to 5.95 to 4.10 million years ago (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.2686).

The reintroduction programme is an experiment run by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the RSPB.

By combining the two methods, they were able to produce maps showing where turtles go after hatching (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.1468).

To understand the Hen Harrier species» genetic make - up is of extreme importance to its future and will help aid the national conservation efforts such as the RSPB's Hen Harrier LIFE project.

«Those species that are most vulnerable to rats are often the ones that are the most difficult to count» says Steffen Oppel, a Conservation Scientist with the RSPB who recently tested a new approach to count the invisible birds with colleagues from SPEA in Portugal.

The RSPB calls upon the Scottish Office and the government to seek legislative powers to control deer numbers in the Scottish uplands where they threaten conservation.

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Such a small population suggests colonisation may have resulted from an accidental transoceanic crossing and was not a large - scale planned event (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2012.0012).

That could be bad news for fish being tracked in the wild — they may become easy meat for predators (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2014.1595).