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Looks interesting! One modification I'd suggest: pin the first row and column, so they stay in place at the top and left when scrolling down and across. Hope this is feasible! Currently, it is too easy to lose track of which row and column you want to check.

Can length & wingspan be added too?

Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire – Police Scotland appeals for information Press release from Police Scotland: APPEAL FOR INFORMATION FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF A BIRD OF PREY IN ABERDEENSHIRE Detectives are appealing for information after a bird of prey was poisoned in Aberd…

Victorian attitudes towards birds of prey /predators in general remain stubbornly persistent in many parts of the UK.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BirdingScotland

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/07/s...

A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it

BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

Introducing BIRDBASE, which aims to be the world's most comprehensive avian trait ecology database. Article links to open access paper, & data in Excel spreadsheet. phys.org/news/2025-09... #science #environment #ecology #eco #biology #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #openaccess #datascience

ISRAEL OWNS THE LABOUR PARTY.

Not so?

Check out the funding of Labour MPs and the party by the Zionist supporting diaspora. All coordinated by LFI, Labour Friends of Israel. (Cooper received £210k - Starmer £50k for his leadership campaign. Total donated?Millions.

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

So it’s un 🇬🇧 to protest against genocide but it’s 🇬🇧 to sell more munitions to 🇮🇱

Sorry Sir Keith you’ve lost the plot and loosing the country
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Yes, Dicksonia antarctica, and/or D. squarrosa from New Zealand

And Starmer has the sick hypocrisy to say anti-genocide protests are ‘un-British’

Is Starmer ever going to ask Israel to stop the bombing for even a day so that Palestinian people can grieve in peace for the tens of thousands killed by Israel?

I won’t hold my breath.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’ Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think it's "un-British" to be providing diplomatic cover, arms and intelligence flights to a rogue, genocidal state. But then I'm not Mr K Starmer.

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Just keep watching.

This rather hard hitting video of a police officer being questioned about his role in arresting peaceful protesters and watching it land is well worth a view.

But why has Cabot's Tern been lumped back into Sandwich Tern, when African Crested Tern – split from Royal Tern by the _same_ research papers – has not been lumped back into Royal Tern?

Something amiss there: influence from some people not wanting to learn a new name?

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Tories misspell the country they wish to run.....

The common criminal has ambitions to be a war criminal.

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

It is, of course, entirely legitimate and commendable to support small farms. But, as the historian Robert Paxton pointed out, “It was in the countryside that both Mussolini and Hitler won their first mass following, and it was angry farmers who provided their first mass constituency.”

The antisemitic tropes in this newsletter, from the headline onwards, are obvious and grotesque. At one point it links to an article effectively blaming Jews for the Holocaust. But these - and many other outrageous distortions - are mixed up with news stories about real stuff.

It's this mixing that makes such communications really dangerous, in my view. People think "if this is real, that must be as well."
Small farm campaigners: please keep your guard up, and don't let your movements get captured by conspiracism and far-right ideology.

Israel steps up deportations of flotilla activists published at 15:11 15:11 Last week, hundreds of activists, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, were detained by Israeli forces after a flotilla carrying aid bound for Gaza was intercepted. Israeli authorities arrested about 470 people as dozens of vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were stopped by Israeli forces from reaching Gaza. Israel has deported several of them since the arrests. Monday: Israel deports Greta Thunberg and 170 other activists. Those deported are citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, the UK, Serbia, and the United States. Last Sunday: Israel deports 29 people from Israel to Spain, they are Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Last Saturday: Israel deports 137 detainees to Turkey. Among those deported were citizens of the US, Italy, UK, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Malaysia, Bahrain, Morocco, Switzerland, Tunisia, and Turkey. Last Friday: Israel deports four Italian citizens.

I'll check Turkish outlets to try to confirm it. The BBC just listed country names. Also lol at "steps up deportations" rather than, idk, "frees."

Israeli occupation soldiers deprived Global Sumud Flotilla detainees of medicine and subjected them to humiliation and abuse inside an Israeli detention, according to testimonies from released activists.

Friends of our government.

Never, ever, ever vote for this rancid Labour govt.

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