Some really interesting video clips on Peatland ecology and species. Well worth viewing.
Latest wildlife news from across Wales.
Two excellent YouTube Channels covering wildlife in North Wales.
Cofnod Channel
NWWT Channel
An incredible 277 people participated in the Garden BioBlitz across Wales on the 30th May 2020. All together we managed to generate 6243 records representing 1430 different species! Impressive stats, particularly as we were largely recording in our own gardens, rather than pristine nature reserves.
In the Cofnod area alone 69 recorders took part, finding 631 species and making 1383 records. Over 35% of Cofnod records were invertebrates, 33% were plants and 27% were birds. The top five most recorded species in the Cofnod area were all birds: Blackbird, Jackdaw, Blue tit, House sparrow and Wood Pigeon. Records are still coming in via the Cofnod ORS, so it’s not too late to submit your records.
It was great fun being part of this all-Wales event, working together with our sister LERCs (SEWBReC, BIS and WWBIC) and the Wales Biodiversity Partnership.
It just goes to show what treasures we can find living close to home!
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News on invasive non-native species in Wales. Includes the Aesculapian snake in Colwyn Bay and news of Crassula bio-control tests.
Henry Cook, NWWT Project Officer, will take us on a wildlife virtual tour including great crested newts, bee orchids and grizzled skipper butterflies. Booking essential.
E-mail Mark Sheridan to book your place.
Lots of interesting Welsh nature observations.
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 | debbie.felin btopenworld.com |
A new book on Downy Mildews and Albugos, (White Blister-rusts) has now been printed. This group of fungus-like pathogens is often neglected but they are ideal to look for and record at times of the year when other fungi are few and far between. For example while we are all stuck at home it's an ideal opportunity to search out our back gardens for plant pathogens including some of the ones in the book. It's surprising what you can find locally; only last week Debbie Evans found the Downy Mildew, Peronospora valerianellae on Valerianella carinata within 50 metres of her house. There were only 2 previous records in Wales from VC46 from the early 2000s and it’s rarely recorded in the rest of GB.
There is no similar book available and most specialist books are very expensive as we all know. Thus, at £8.50 plus p&p it's an absolute bargain! These books are mainly self-funded and they sell the books at cost just to cover the printing costs.