Wildlife reports

By - Alan Stubbs, Guy Freeman, Richard Fox, Dawn Balmer, Nick Bowles, Frances Dipper, Gordon Woodroffe, Emma Neave-Webb, Matt Hobbs, Juliet Vickery, Howard Inns, Paul Waring, Adrian Parr, Richard Wright, Ian Strachan, Mark Powell

December’s wildlife reports feature the Beluga whale that was spotted in the Thames, the latest BirdTrends report from the BTO, four new additions to the British beetle list, round-ups of news on mammals, dragonflies, flies, and flowering plants in Scotland, and much more.

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More from 'BW 30.2 - December 2018 '

Pages	Title	Format
79-85	A scent of musk – the ‘life and times’ of Moschatel, the Good Friday flower	Article
86	Through a naturalist’s eyes	Column
87-96	National Parks or Natural Parks: how can we have both?	Article
97-98	Habitat management news	Habitat management news
99-106	Was the Stone Marten once established in the wild in the British Isles?	Article
107	Wild story	Column
108-115	Colliery-spoil biodiversity of the South Wales Valleys	Article
116	Flying kites: a view from Wales	Column
117-120	Comment: ‘Biodiversity Accounting’ – a tool for transparency or for dumbing down?	Comment
121	The Strawberry Tree	Column
122-142	Wildlife reports	Wildlife reports
143	Naturally opinionated	Column
144-149	Conservation news	Conservation news
150	Twitcher in the swamp	Column
151	Identification of Trees and Shrubs in Winter using Buds and Twigs by Bernd Schulz	Book reviews
151-152	Climate Change and British Wildlife	Book reviews
152-153	Atlas of the Hydrophiloid Beetles of Britain and Ireland	Book reviews
153-154	Ploughing a New Furrow: A Blueprint for Wildlife-friendly Farming	Book reviews
154	Handbook of the Bees of the British Isles	Book reviews