Nature alert: Nearly one in five bird species in Europe is at risk of extinction according to the European Red List of Birds, compiled by BirdLife International and using data gathered by BTO volunteers. The list makes shocking reading, with illegal killing and land-use change among the factors thought to be driving the declines evident...
Welcome to the new development website for Merseyside BioBank LRC. This site is not yet live so please don’t be surprised when things break! This development is meant to ensure that MBB has a continued web presence and that our presence is manageable within the resources available to the LRC staff. We also want it...
Salix × doniana on Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve, October 2013 Philip H. Smith, Patricia A. Lockwood & David Mercer The five known bushes of the nationally rare willow hybrid Salix × doniana on Ainsdale Sand Dunes NNR were revisited on the morning of 15th October 2013, having been last surveyed on 1st...
There are three main ways for MBAN members to get involved with Butterfly surveying and recording in North Merseyside this year. Grayling monitoring In 2010 Merseyside BioBank commissioned – with the help of a grant from the SITA Trust – a baseline survey of the Grayling butterfly on the Sefton Coast. One of the products...