https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026-11-11T12:00:00+01:00Darren Bankshttps://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/11/ring-necked-parakeets.html2026-11-11T12:00:00+01:00

Ring-necked parakeets are now a common sight across much of Britain, and whether they belong here is disputed. The Guardian has a long read on the debate: Alien menace…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/10/the-loons-necklace.html2026-10-17T10:57:00+02:00

The Loon’s Necklace (1948), directed by F. R. Crawley. A Tsimshian legend of how the loon (lom) got its white necklace, acted out in masks around a hundred years old. It…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/10/juvenile-nutcracker.html2026-10-16T15:47:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/11/perching-kestral.html2026-09-10T14:30:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/nutria-on-the-bega.html2026-09-08T13:37:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/javenile-red-backed-shrike.html2026-09-07T16:24:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/just-missed-the-bee-eaters.html2026-09-07T15:37:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/heron-on-the-bega.html2026-09-07T13:35:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/golden-jackal-timisoara-romania.html2026-09-06T16:50:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/young-morrhen-with-bio-bottle.html2026-09-06T16:19:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/water-snake-on-the-bega.html2026-09-02T13:06:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/09/burgundy-snail-on-burnt-ground.html2026-09-01T16:28:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/08/water-frogs-on-a-dead-nutria-head.html2026-08-29T13:14:00+02:00

Two water frogs sitting on a dead Bird floating in a backwater of the Bega, 29 August. One is at the top right, one at the bottom left. Both are green with a pale stripe…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/07/cuckoo-gok-umea.html2026-08-01T16:14:00+02:00

A cuckoos call seems to carry a long way and move about, coming from different directions, so you never quite know where its coming from. This is the first Cuckoo i have…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/08/blog-post.html2026-07-31T15:20:00+00:00

Trailer for Fadia’s Tree (2022), directed by Sarah Beddington.

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/07/markbygden-wind-farm-from-the-sea-pitea.html2026-07-01T12:00:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/crossbill-loxia-curvirostra-korsnabb.html2026-06-30T13:00:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/mountain-hare-lepus-timidus-skogshare-bjuroklubb.html2026-06-30T12:30:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/arctic-skua-stercorarius-parasiticus-kustlabb-bjuroklubb.html2026-06-30T12:00:00+02:00

Arctic Skua the scientific name, parasiticus, describes how the bird eats. Skuas are kleptoparasites. Rather than catch a fish, they find a bird that already has one and…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/sunset-obbola-harbour.html2026-06-28T22:30:00+02:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/kvarken-log-test.html2026-06-20T20:42:00+02:00

Kvarken Log test scan. June 2026. I’ve been building a field tool for the Godzilla expedition. A GoPro on the bow takes a photograph every 60 seconds through the day…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/sandpiper-drillsnappa.html2026-06-19T14:52:00+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/imagining-godzilla-residency-trip.html2026-06-03T12:42:00+02:00

The catamaran Godzilla. Photo: Tivon Rice / I magining Godzilla . I've been selected to join Imagining Godzilla for a four-day leg this summer. The residency is run by…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/06/inget-annat-blommor.html2026-06-02T09:30:09.077000+00:00

Foto: Simon Gran Danielsson Granskog faller ljudlöst ned från himlen. — Jan Wolf-Watz Colin Egglestons Long Weekend (1978) följer ett australiskt par som behandlar ett…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/05/i-saved-png-image-to-bird.html2026-05-21T13:32:00+02:00

Benn Jordan turns a picture of a bird into sound, then gets a starling to sing it back. An image stored in a bird.

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/05/treecreeper-tradkrypare.html2026-05-19T12:13:57.780000+00:00

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/05/boids.html2026-05-17T14:43:57.930000+00:00

Craig Reynolds developed the Boids program in 1986 and published his seminal paper "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model" in 1987 at the ACM…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/04/slavonian-grebes-podiceps-auritus.html2026-04-24T15:52:00+00:00

I've got just the place for low-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses! It's perfect! Just what we…

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/03/blog-post.html2026-03-16T11:54:00+01:00

Poster for Watching People Watching Birds (2026), a film by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken. Official selection, CPH:DOX 2026.

https://birds.darrenbanks.uk/2026/02/hunting-white-backed-woodpecker-2026.html2026-02-05T14:33:00+00:00