Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-29-2009

[anuran]

• The New Birds of Conservation Concern (pdf)
  The red and amber list in full, as published by the RSPB. I just noticed the Herring Gull is on the list.. The Herring Gull?? God, we're so f*cked
  (tags: birds ecology ornithology doom)
• BBC NEWS | Wales | Family see Jesus image in Marmite
  The family said they found the image comforting
  (tags: doom news jesus wwjd)
• YouTube - Malay Eagle Owl
  I'm at work so I can't actually hear it purring, but I'm sure it must be.
  (tags: youtube)
• Cuckoo joins official list of UK's most endangered birds | Environment | The Guardian
  The new UK birds red list released. "When the RSPB was formed 120 years ago, few would have been concerned about the cuckoo, lapwing, starling or house sparrow. Now, these birds are some of our greatest conservation priorities." Given that most (if not all) species of birds have declined in the last 40 years by ridiculous amounts, it makes me sad to think how alive the world must have been and sounded only a few decades before I was born.
  (tags: doom rspb birds conservation)
• Bird uses body as dam to stop drainpipe soaking chicks - Telegraph
  Dammed mistle thrush!
  (tags: bird news)
• Scotland welcomes back the beaver - Scottish Beaver Trial
  Beavers have now been released into the wild in Scotland, the first in over 400 years
  (tags: beavers biology ecology snh)

Comments

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

herring gulls? Aren't they the mad huge evil bastards that eat anything? like more mad and huge and evil than normal seagulls...

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

No, Herring Gulls (and Lesser-black backed) are the normal sea gulls.. are you thinking of Greater Black-backed, which are often classed as an honourary Bird of Prey (along with Ravens)?

All seagulls are, of course, mad evil bastards.

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

NORMAL seagulls are endangered? WTF? There's like millions of them all over the place, aren't there? I don't know which ones I'm thinking of, ah well.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yep - exactly, normal seagulls are endangered in the UK. :(