Mary Colwell
@curlewcalls
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Conservationist, author, love Curlews (& ++). Founder, Curlew Action. Chair Curlew Recovery Partnership. Campaigner for GCSE in Natural History.
Bristol, England
Joined May 2009
‘Curlew Moon is a book with an urgent and important message’ TLS ‘Well-crafted and thoughtful, meticulously researched and charmingly illustrated’ Country Life. ‘Readable, highly informed and heartfelt, Colwell has lovely poetic insights’ Mark Cocker, Spectator. #CurlewMoon
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Starmer- “I won’t let down future generations. At Cop30 I will continue to show UK leadership on the world stage to work with others to stand up for our values and our future,” He said this as he pulled the plug on UK support for the first realistic mechanism to save the
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Tom seems to have captured the moment that a Redshank is shaking the salt out of its nares (nostrils). Waders operating in salty conditions have salt glands, near their eyes, that remove excess salt.
#WaderWednesday ‘Sneezy’ to identify this Redshank on the Northumberland coast. @WeBS_UK @GrahamFAppleton
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This is appalling. What on earth was the reason for the three-line whip to vote this down? The Labour party supported the swift brick amendment when it was tabled on Conservative government legislation in 2023. Has the government offered an explanation for blocking it now?
#birds Swifts fly thousands of miles to breed in the UK—only to find their nest sites blocked up. Their ancient forests with nest hollows now gone, they relied on cavities in buildings, but these, too, have disappeared. To stop their steep 2/3rds decline since 1995, an
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"Where reason gives us least assistance, emotion comes to our rescue and guides us. The astronomer may tell us something about the moon, but so too does the poet. The astronomer's moon is everybody's moon; the poet's is very much his own and not everyone can share it."~C.R.Milne
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Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘November Farm Work’ Farm Crops in Britain - Puffin Picture Book, 1955 Artist: SR Badmin
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3 years ago today!My gov petition became the fastest growing closing with 110k signatures.Labour said yes then blocked swift bricks with a 3line whip.If you care, act.The existence of swifts is on the line & Labour seems to hate birds.People power works.Join me to save our swifts
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“A tawny owl is looking down from its high vantage point at the great bonfire” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson
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45 years ago tonight, a new era began. Ronald Reagan was elected 40th President of the United States. He is pictured celebrating with the woman who would redefine the role of First Lady, Nancy Reagan.
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So here it is. The education review that sets the agenda. Where is the long awaited emphasis on nature? We will protect what we love, we will love what we understand. We will understand what we are taught. Nowhere is that recognised. Nowhere. We must have a GCSE in Natural
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Can’t believe Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating insulation industry at same time. Total madness
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Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill, though insiders warn move will be ‘disastrous’
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A pretty depressing day counting sick & dead Whooper Swans. Avian influenza is within the population. Please report all dead birds for possible collection & testing. In 🏴 , 🏴 & 🏴 this is @DefraGovUK
https://t.co/dEoambONmf Reporting to @BirdTrack also helps with monitoring.
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Who lobbied against swift bricks. Any of developers who paid £100m to CMA to go away? Anyone care to come clean why @UKLabour whipped members against a simple enhancement to prevent a species going extinct? Do tell, like to explain why to my kids
This @UKLabour government really seems to hate wildlife. It cannot agree with even the simplest of ways of helping wildlife. Swift bricks have been proven to work and increase numbers of swifts. Do swift bricks cost so much that developers have lobbied against them?
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Apex Fusion is now live on @StargateFinance, connecting Cardano’s UTxO network with EVM ecosystems for the first time. Powered by @LayerZero_Labs, this integration helps unify liquidity and bridge the gap between distinct blockchain architectures, from UTxO to EVM. You can now
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If you're not scared by this you should be.
Antarctic glacier’s alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometers in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise https://t.co/MW8IBTOhE5
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Am I missing something? Where is the Natural History GCSE? Where is the promised focus on nature? We were told to wait for this review and all would be clear, but it looks like it’s been buried, delayed, or quietly dropped yet again. How can a government ignore the natural world
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Government to set out plans to bring the curriculum into the modern day and help young people step into the future.
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These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.
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It takes so little to make a difference. Just to turn to the sky and the birds instead of always to the money. Who are we that we can’t even give a bird a home?
Living a nightmare. We haven’t got to the tipping point yet 3 years into the swift brick campaign. I hope you’re furious. Go see your MP. Please. People power will work. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk how you feel too. The govt has betrayed swifts.
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Quantum Quantum, Jensen Jensen, Quantum Quantum, Huang Huang (Quantum Quantum) Quantum Electronics! Ontology << And >> Cosmology!! ElectroMagnetism is the Universal substrate of superpositional experience, of Creation, across the entire Light-signal & Plasma-group wave spectrum
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Hannah you are a nature hero. This is unbelievably frustrating and the govt’s position incomprehensible (not least as just two years ago in Opposition they were loudly supportive!). But the campaign goes on and your friends and fellow Swift lovers will continue to back you 🙏
Living a nightmare. We haven’t got to the tipping point yet 3 years into the swift brick campaign. I hope you’re furious. Go see your MP. Please. People power will work. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk how you feel too. The govt has betrayed swifts.
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Living a nightmare. We haven’t got to the tipping point yet 3 years into the swift brick campaign. I hope you’re furious. Go see your MP. Please. People power will work. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk how you feel too. The govt has betrayed swifts.
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Labour give so little of a shit about British wildlife that not only did they not support the absolute no-brainer of installing swift bricks on new build homes, they actively whipped their peers to vote against it, causing the amendment to fail. It’s ‘build, baby, build’ but not
BAD NEWS💔if the vote had taken place earlier we would have won-Tories (majority) whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk what you think. GUTTED. Labour: what a betrayal 😡
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