All posts tagged birdlife cyprus

Killing migrant birds is BIG business on Cyprus. Illegal 'snacks' called ambelopoulia made from hundreds of thousands of passerines such as Blackcaps and Robins - which have bred

Many of us, I suspect, sign conservation-based petitions then never hear another word from the organisers. People are busy, we can understand that, but it's hugely encouraging when

There's a beautiful male Blackcap defending a feeder tray in my garden at the moment, driving off Great, Blue, and Coal Tits with loud 'tacks' and open wing

In what world could someone state openly that limesticks - a stick or twig coated in resin on which a bird lands and gets increasingly stuck to as

The one where we talk about September's UK birds, ask whether if Buff-breasted Sandpipers become common they'd ever be 'trash', again highlight the awful illegal trapping situation on

A remarkable article in the Cyrus Mail by George Psyllides which quotes Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis - a man with such an apparently poor grasp of the situation

A short conversation with Martin Hellicar, Campaigns Manager for BirdLife Cyprus (BLC), following the recent release of BLC's 'Trapping Monitoring Report' which covered this year's winter season

BirdLife Cyprus has released its newest report on illegal bird trapping with data gathered between 31 Aug and 8 Nov 2010, showing a dramatic rise - a

The outrage against Cyprus' bird trappers is stepping up with an RSPB press-release highlighting the slaughter of songbirds taking place on UK controlled land: "As many songbirds,