Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Stephen Moss

    How do you help a migratory bird adapt to the climate crisis? One radical solution, as a team of Dutch ecologists discovered, is to move them further north. Pied flycatchers are handsome black-and-white songbirds, which breed in deciduous woodlands across much of temperate Europe. Each autumn, they head south across the Sahara desert to overwinter in west Africa.

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Stephen Moss

    I was about seven years old when, in the pages of the European field guide illustrated by the legendary bird artist Roger Tory Peterson, I first came across the Alpine accentor. Something about this bulky cousin of our familiar dunnock must have clicked, because soon afterwards I was convinced I had seen one in our suburban front garden. Not just unlikely but, as I later discovered, impossible.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Stephen Moss

    Despite TS Eliot’s famous reworking of the opening lines to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, April is not usually the cruellest month, weather-wise. For birders, it sees the welcome return of the majority of long-distance migrants from their winter quarters in sub-Saharan Africa – including warblers, flycatchers and chats, along with those masters of the air: swallows, martins and swifts.

  • 1 month ago | msn.com | Stephen Moss

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 1 month ago | msn.com | Stephen Moss

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

Contact details

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

Coverage map

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
5K
Tweets
52K
DMs Open
No
Stephen Moss
Stephen Moss @StephenMossGdn
11 May 25

Is it not a bit predictable for the new Pope to call for an end to war? Not exactly a plot twist

Stephen Moss
Stephen Moss @StephenMossGdn
11 May 25

RT @KingstonChess: Kingston win the Alexander Cup (Surrey teams knockout) for the 4th year in a row. #champions https://t.co/zPThd8GJms htt…

Stephen Moss
Stephen Moss @StephenMossGdn
11 May 25

Presumably the assisted suicide legislation and ensuring there are no care workers constitute joined up government. Reduce demand on services to reduce migration