I’m currently working down in Bristol and recently had a lovely encounter with an urban fox. Bristol is well known for its urban foxes (I think the BBC Natural History even made a programme about them back in the 1990s) and I often see them either on trail camera or glimpses of them at night....
Foxes were once thought of as a mammal of the countryside. However, in the last few decades their numbers have been increasing in cities. This is due to habitat loss and persecution in the countryside and more food availability in the cities due to our messy and wasteful ways. If you have a...
At one time you would have to travel to the uplands of the north or find a rocky sea cliff to see a peregrine. Peregrine numbers declined dramatically due to persecution and pesticides in the food web until the population hit a low in the 1960s. Since then they have been recovering and can now be...