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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales [1] and in Scotland. [2] It was founded in 1889. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom.
The bird referred to in English translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 6, as lapwing [28] is probably the northern lapwing. Tereus is turned into an epops (6.674); Ovid presumably had the hoopoe in mind, whose crest indicates his royal status and whose long, sharp beak is a symbol of his violent nature.
Birds can be listed in more than one category: for example, the Canada goose has a large introduced population but there have also been a few naturally occurring vagrants, and the white-tailed eagle is a native species that is also subject to an ongoing reintroduction project, so both species meet the criteria for categories A and C.
Brambling's song Brambling in Pahalgam, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It has also been called the cock o' the north and the mountain finch.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity. A lake at the RSPB West Sedgemoor nature reserve in Somerset This is a list of RSPB reserves.
Fowlmere is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve between Fowlmere and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire. [2] It is designated a 39.9-hectare (99-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest called Fowlmere Watercress Beds. [1] [3] [4] Fowlmere's reedbeds and pools are fed by natural chalk springs and a chalk stream runs ...
The spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus) is a wader (shorebird) in the large bird family Scolopacidae.The genus name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.
Eurasian blue tit in Sweden, April 2018. The Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) [2] is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae.It is easily recognisable by its blue and yellow plumage and small size.