Bill Pattern Study News Today

a huge response to the tv drama about the post office scandal that saw hundreds of innocent branch managers wrongfully prosecuted for theft. well hear from one whos fought forjustice for 20 years. whilst there are some brighter skies ahead for us all there is still some rain in the forecast today particularly across the south, i will have your full forecast here on breakfast. its thursday 4th january. our main story. a row about emergency cover has broken out between nhs bosses and uni...

There is fewer than 18,000. so welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewick�*s swan survey. it was started by conservationist sir peter scott, who sat at this window meticulously painting the beaks of every swan. you can see here these beautiful drawings that he did of each individual bill pattern and you can see that there are three perspectives that he painted for each swan. this is one of the...

Sirindi, who is at slimbridge at the moment, hes one of the divorcees, but the cheese dynasty was quite a big one. roquefort, cheddar, stilton. i think thats maisie. thats maisie coming in on the right hand side. so shes number two. number two family on the pond and making that point known there, by pushing that other family away. probably best to think of them as mafias rather than families. this year, 91 bewicks swans have been seen at slimbridge. in the 19705, there was sometimes more than 60...

In the 1970s, there was sometimes more than 600. its numbers are plummeting very, very quickly and have been for quite some time. so just to give you an idea, in the mid—1990s, we were looking at around 29,000 birds in the population in europe. and now we think thats fewer than, there is fewer than 18,000. so welcome to the scott house museum. this is where the bill pattern study first started in 1963. this winter is the 60th anniversary of the bewick�*s swan survey. it was started by conser...