Tickets are selling well for the conference, this year looks to be the best attended yet. And don’t forget next year, we are proud to announce that Loren Coleman will be attending as a speaker. The venue is yet to be confirmed.
Chris Hall has organised a vintage bus tour from the conference venue to the [...]
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Kazz Allison has set up, and is adding daily to the new BCIB sightings map.
All sightings from this year will be logged.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109165751156961337979.0004618a779cd5835130f&ll=52.348537,-1.465648&spn=4.712047,9.84375&z=7
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HEARING ON MOUNTAIN LIONS IN MICHIGAN
Sent by BCIB USA representative Alex Mistretta
The existence of Mountain Lions in Michigan, or more precisely, the
existence of a breeding population, came to the forefront recently at
a Senate Agriculture committee hearing on Thursday January 29.
Officially Mountain Lions were extirpated from Michigan at the turn
of the century. Yet a dozen individuals, [...]
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After last years trial run of the magazine we have decided to make it a regular, quarterly feature.
Edited by Shaun Stevens, Rik Snook and Cheryl Hudson, the first issue will be available at the conference.
Price, size etc. is still yet to be determined.
In the meantime we need a name, vote for your favourite or send [...]
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Big Cats in Britain coming to the North East
The Big Cats in Britain group is holding its 3rd annual conference at the Marton Country Club in Middlesbrough.
Investigators from around the British Isles and Ireland will be attending the meeting on the weekend of March the 20th to the 22nd.
Big Cats have been reported in the [...]
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Dear all I obviously have a thing going for mystery cats at the moment. Check this out…
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/01/weirdest_cat_ever_seriously.php General thinking is that it’s a weird feral _F. catus_.
Dr Darren Naish
(Thanks Darren).
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After reading the piece by Dr Darren Naish on his visit to see the Shropshire jungle cat, I thought I would remind you of our little jaunt to Ireland. Myself and Chris Moiser had arranged to visit the Fintona lynx, which was shot in 1977 by the RUC.
I never made the trip but stayed behind [...]
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BCIB have recently been sent several hoax photohraphs, even the Bodmin Moor cut out, again, come on get original
The following two news articles are from the Ashbourne News & Telegraph
New Year Brings New Sighting of “Black Beast” by Gareth Butterfield
Ashbourne News & Telegraph: 7th January 2009
A GRAINY picture of a mysterious black [...]
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The Hayling Island Jungle cat
Link to Dr Darren Naish
Category: mammalogy
Posted on: January 20, 2009 4:18 AM, by Darren Naish
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/01/the_hayling_island_jungle_cat.php#more
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Shaun Stevens talk at the Kintyre Antiquarian & Natural History Society went well, here are a few notes from Shaun,
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So I’ve finished my first talk. It seemed to go down well. About 40 people there on a night of howling gales and driving rain, excellent turnout.
Everyone took one of my cards. Loads of questions. and [...]
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