Read an update from the Totley Swift Group about their work

Earlier in the year Birds on the Brink joined forces with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust to fund measures aimed at helping nesting Little Terns and breeding waders on the north Norfolk coast. Here’s an update, informed by Beach Warden Theo de Clermont. It details the project’s impact on the avian world, together with news of some welcome collateral conservation floral benefits.

Birds on the Brink has received a donation of £8,263.20 from the international competition Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY). This wonderful addition to the charity’s funds will help us fund conservation grants in the months to come.

Birds on the Brink has awarded a grant to the Totley Swift Group in Sheffield for the provision and installation of nest boxes.

Birds on the Brink is pleased to help fund measures to protect nesting Little Terns on the north Norfolk coast.

Birds on the Brink is supporting continuing efforts to conserve the Bearded Screech-owl in Guatemala.

Birds on the Brink is pleased to announce it has awarded a grant for a project aimed at reversing the declining fortunes of coastal-nesting Ringed Plovers.

Unique among European raptors, the Honey-buzzard feeds on the larvae of bees and wasps. Sadly, it is slaughtered as it migrates through the Mediterranean, shot illegally by a hardened minority who get a perverse form of pleasure from killing things.

Like others of its kind, Egyptian Vultures are threatened and declining globally. Find out what’s being done to help them in Turkey, thanks to a co-funding partnership between Birds on the Brink and the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.

In an interview with Paul Sterry, Dr Hem Sagar Baral discusses the impact Covid-19 has had on life and wildlife in Nepal.

The Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa is a familiar gamebird in the UK, and one that birdwatchers often ignore because of its alien status. However, in its native mainland European range the species is in trouble and BirdLife International now classify it as Near Threatened. Underpinning its status and ancestry are complex issues, and its future is inextricably linked to human activity.

In these days of lockdown, support groups that raise environmental awareness of, and promote well-being through association with, the natural world play an important societal role. Among their number of course is the Self Isolating Bird Club. But associations between the words ‘club’ and ‘bird’ have not always been benign, in particular with regard to sparrows in the UK.

Even seemingly laudable attempts to combat Climate Change can have adverse environmental consequences. In the case of wind turbines this includes the entirely predictable outcome that rotating blades kill flying birds. The Hornsea Wind Farm development in the North Sea – permission for Stage Three to proceed has just been given - is causing controversy for this very reason. To be precise, its turbine blades already kill seabirds and there are fears that the cumulative impact of its expansion could be devastating.

Small mammals play central roles in many terrestrial habitats. Depending on the species, they can be indicators of healthy, well-managed habitats, or fill a vital link in the food chain when eaten by predators as wide-ranging as birds and other mammals. However, because by-and-large they lead unobtrusive lives, and being inclined to shyness, small mammals are hard to study and are rarely seen. Their abundance or scarcity can be hard to quantify, and in some instances even their very presence is a challenge to discern.