This month’s recipe comes from India, where we escaped for the month of January. India is huge, one of those countries whose size exceeds expectations – it never looks that big on a map. We have worked our way up from Kerala in the very south, which is lush and […]

This month, branch committee member Karl Woods provides an overview of gull species in Ireland and gives tips on how to begin gull-watching. The word ‘Seagull’ is a generally well-known and used name, but is it really a suitable term? The image that generally springs to mind would be of […]

Carl Linnaeus, the great 18th century Swedish biologist, gave scientific names, based on his binomial system, to over 4,000 species of animals (and even more plants). He called the donkey Equus asinus, which is literally just ‘horse donkey’ in Latin. But in English, ‘asinine’, meaning donkey-like, has become a synonym […]

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