Evening talk
Bats in Berkshire
Pangbourne Village Hall 6 Station Rd, Pangbourne, Berskshire, United KingdomSpeaker: Rose-Ann Movsovic (Berks & S Bucks Bat Group) After a brief introduction to UK bats, we will look at the species that can be…
Managing the Windsor Estate for wildlife (Zoom)
Speaker: Des Sussex (The Crown Estate) The wildlife and conservation work on The Crown Estate land at Windsor, extending across over 6,500ha of varied land…
An Introduction to Tracks & Signs – the Naturalist’s Forgotten Skill
Pangbourne Village Hall 6 Station Rd, Pangbourne, Berskshire, United KingdomSpeaker: Bob Cowley (Oxfordshire Mammal Group) The ability to accurately identify and interpret tracks and signs relies on a body of traditional knowledge that previous…
Conservation Detection Dogs (Zoom)
Speaker: Lucy Wilde (Wilde Ecology Dogs) A brief talk about the use of conservation detection dogs, how they are trained, research being done with case…
Christmas Party and Photographic Competition
Pangbourne Village Hall 6 Station Rd, Pangbourne, Berskshire, United KingdomQuizzes, food and drink as well as judging of photographs submitted to our annual competition.
Saving the Stone Curlew (Zoom)
Speaker: Keith Betton (Hampshire Ornithological Society) The Stone Curlew is a special bird of the North Wessex Downs where it breeds in small numbers. This…
Birds and Mammals of the Terai Lowlands
Pangbourne Village Hall 6 Station Rd, Pangbourne, Berskshire, United KingdomSpeaker: Matt Eade (Naturetrek Ltd) Nepal has greatly varying habitats, with eight 8,000m mountains, tropical forested hillsides, and Terai lowlands, which support a wealth of…
Life at Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents (Zoom)
Speaker: Prof Jon Copley (Univ of Southampton) This talk explores the patterns of life at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, where chemosynthesis sustains colonies…
Flora of the Eastern Pyrenees
Pangbourne Village Hall 6 Station Rd, Pangbourne, Berskshire, United KingdomSpeaker: Dr Brian Ferry (Royal Holloway College) From 1990-2010 Brian made annual visits to the eastern Pyrenees where he made detailed studies of the flora.…
The Difficult Plant Problem (Zoom)
Speaker: Dr Tim Rich (BSBI) There are many groups of plants which are difficult to identify, but relatively few botanists are interested in tackling them.…