Interested in wildlife? Then you’ll love the work of 21- year-old Adam Canning, our wildlife filmer.

“In western Europe a belief persisted until the 19^th century that swallows curl up together and sink to the bottom of ponds and marshes for the winter…”...


“Aristotle believed that when redstarts vanished in winter, they turned into robins”...
    

“Common whitethroats used to be the most numerous summer visitor with 5 million pairs in the late 1960s, but there was a severe drought in the Sahel area of Africa—just south of the Sahara where they winter, and their numbers fell to 1/6 of the pre-1960 total.”...

View more from Adam:

August - Yellowhammer and Butterflies
July - Butterflies of High Summer
June - Coastal Breeding Birds
May - 'The Stars' of the Dawn Chorus
April - Summer Migrants
March - Elaborate courtship displays of the Great Crested Grebe
February - Birds we are likely to see in suburban Britain

You can see more of Adam's work on his site here

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