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Although we are no longer taking new comments you can still read those that were submitted during the project in 2008 by clicking on one of the pegs in the map above. The table below has the most recent comments and if you want to read more on any of these, click on the link in the topic column.
Hot Topics
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31 Dec 2008Basking Sharks
They're the second largest fish in the world and can be found off the UK during summer.
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31 Dec 2008Snow Geese
One migrant that is flourishing is the Snow Goose that breeds in Arctic Canada.
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31 Dec 2008Red Knots & Horseshoe Crabs
Check out our fully panoramic picture of the mass congregation of Red Knots at Delaware Bay.
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| Hi, i'm no fisherman but i take my dogs along the river Tyne daily between Melkridge and Haltwhistle. On Sunday 22nd Dec i noticed a couple of dead salmon along the riverbank, yesterday there were a g… | Dave Texeira, Melkridge | 24 Dec 2008 | |
| Hi again, following my last comment, I walk along the river Tyne to watch Salmon migrating, do they travel in groups ? they seem to skip over the pebbles (and my wellies) in groups of between 12 - 20,… | Dave Texeira, Melkridge | 24 Dec 2008 | |
| Is it unusual to see this butterfly in Tenerife? | Ray Lenon | 23 Dec 2008 | |
| Several dead salmon now appearing on the river Barle, coming down from Exmoor. | Nicholas | 18 Dec 2008 | |
| Do salmon move into Yorkshire rivers? Which? When? | DAVE JOHNSTON | 17 Dec 2008 | |
| I live in Warsaw and we are having an unseasonably mild winter. I am only just starting to see birds migrating South for the winter and this is the second week in December. I live near a public palace… | Cate Evans | 16 Dec 2008 | |
| I think it'z rly cool :) ( im only 12 tho :s) | Yasmin Adely | 15 Dec 2008 | |
| I saw at least 5 African Swallows this morning with my Dad (14/12/08) | Joshua Starkey (aged 7) | 14 Dec 2008 | |
| I love this time of year because flocks of migrating birds can regularly be seen and heard flying above my home. If I go into the garden, I always keep watch and listen carefully. A few weeks ago, I h… | Annabelle Tipper | 12 Dec 2008 | |
| Is information about pre-history concluded by the archeologists reliable? I mean when we say dinosaurs belong to 5 thousands years back, how can we prove it? | Vaseem | 12 Dec 2008 | |
| Visiting my mother in the UK this past week, I heard your World on the Move program on Radio 4. It was marvellous. Such a variety of creatures profiled. (Our family has been to the Arctic Circle when… | Hilary Stookey | 11 Dec 2008 | |
| On December 12th 1988 I watched two swallows flying low over a nearby field. They did several circuits before disappearing off toward the South East. The first two people I told about this said I must… | Christina Hollis | 10 Dec 2008 | |
| Hans Westerberg | 09 Dec 2008 | ||
| Hi everybody! This topic was very interesting for me. I love animals, but I haven't heard about it! My best wishes to all of you! | Detty | 09 Dec 2008 | |
| Hi,is there any way that the World on the Move program could address the problems of beekeeping not only in the UK but also the world as pollinating insects and specifically honeybees are currently su… | David Teasdale | 09 Dec 2008 | |
| Monarch butterflies sighted in Maderia | Mary Gillam | 09 Dec 2008 | |
| Always listen to the programme on Long Wave. Well done | Trevor Craig | 06 Dec 2008 | |
| Just keeping up with the goings-on in WotM, currently in Vörstetten, Germany | Iris Pfluger-Bassett | 05 Dec 2008 | |
| I'd like to add some balance to your sanguine remarks regarding starling hordes that invade from the continent every autumn. I run a small family farm on the edge of the Somerset Levels and we see tho… | Richard Vaux | 04 Dec 2008 | |
| Are there any of these flocks of starlings in the Nottingham/Derby area? | Donald Gilchrist | 04 Dec 2008 | |
| We have two distinct crowds of starlings, maybe one lot could be called a murmuration and they appear in the village each autumn presumably from points north, like the Faroes or Iceland and they hang… | David, from North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis. | 03 Dec 2008 | |
| Has there been any evidence of blue fin tuna in the north sea? As in the thirties it was a pleasure fishing for large tuna based at Scaborough, Yorkshire. | JOHN MOODY | 02 Dec 2008 | |
| I live a couple of miles south of Darlington and for the last 10 years or so, our part of our village has been home to a flock of starlings who seem to live here all year round. I've no idea how big t… | Louise Alban | 02 Dec 2008 | |
| Nov. 28, 2008 sighting feeding on a plumbago bush at dusk in North Fort Myers, FL USA. It actually had almost a flourescent pink wing with the striped body. It never alighted but kept flying constantl… | Valerie | 30 Nov 2008 | |
| I live in Somerset near the famous Shapwick Heath roost.I Work in Street and can tell when the starlings are ready to display by the way they gather in the trees here before the flight down to Shapwic… | Caroline Wallbank | 30 Nov 2008 | |
| We put up a swift box a couple of years ago but starlings moved in straight away. They had no trouble at all working out how to get in and have been in residence ever since. Last week they started bri… | Lesley Dance | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| Back in the late 70s I researched into why birds like starlings form such spectacular roosts. Some fly 80 miles each way, so there must be a very good reason for them to spend so much energy every day… | Peter de Groot | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| I used to watch the Starlings when I was a kid gather on Runcorn bridge before they put the bird scarers in. Over here they gather in the pine trees around the house, the whole place alive with chatte… | Badger | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| To the south of my house, in Dorset there are some unsightly gravel pits which are ruining the countryside and destroying habitat. However, one old pit has developed into a new reed bed, by accident o… | Marion Dove | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| My question is, did any living thing or animal travelling in or on our body eg. Electron microscopic creatures? | Khan | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| Jenny Mallett saw a Red Admiral taking nectar on ivy on 25th November at Butterfly Conservation's Magdalen Hill Down reserve in Winchester. Visit the branch web site at www.hantsiow-butterflies.org.uk… | Lynn Fomison | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| its so good to know what is going on with the ospreys, i had the pleasure of been a volunteer in the osprey watch, only for 1 day but was still amazing to be so close to such a wonderful bird and be i… | LOuise | 27 Nov 2008 | |
| 1110 Wednesday Nov. 26th 2008. Twelve or so starlings feeding on the lawn. First time I have seen them in ages. 3/4 minutes later all flew off - intimidated by a crow also on lawn? | Susan Bouchier | 26 Nov 2008 | |
| We have a large murmuration of Starlings, visiting every evening. They finanally come to rest in the laurel hedge around our garden. It has been estimated that there is about 20,000. They chatter away… | Ross Gibbs | 26 Nov 2008 | |
| I have worked in a large garden in this location for over 5 years. Up until this year we have always enjoyed having Humming-bird Hawk-moths here in the summer/autumn - they always seem attracted to Bl… | Ron Bragg | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| I have the thankless task of supervising the street cleansing of Ipswich Town centre and on Saturday 15th November around 0530am I was drawn to a strange sound at the rear of a large shop in town. It… | James Jennings | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| I have a very small group of starlings that have been with me since they hatched in the spring, feeding daily at my bird table and feeding station. From fledglings till now they have been like a bunch… | Rosemarie | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| We live a couple of miles from Bideford in North Devon where there is a huge flock of starlings which roost under the old bridge. To see them swirling and sweeping across the sky is unforgettable. It… | Sue Tait | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| At Riddlesworth Hall (built c 1900) in south Norfolk, there are cases of stuffed birds let into the walls. Behind the piano there is a case of oddities, white crows and such like. In the bottom corner… | Dirk Bouwens | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| Thoroughly enjoy World on the Move and greatly admire those who devote so much time to nquiry intosuch vast wildlife follow-up and research.Two years ago we moved fom the countryside (southwest Scotla… | Laurence Robertson | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| I love your program. It has been a great way to keep in touch with whats going on in the Natural World.I was especially enthralled with the Osprey saga as in 1979 and several other later years I was t… | Richard Barrett | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| There used to be a colony of Curlews on Sampford Moor but now their numbers are down to only a pair. Not sure why this is .. more people using the common perhaps particularly when they have large dogs… | AMANO Samarpan Tracy | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| Your programme today on Leatherbacks was wonderful. When I was young I would often see turtles when I swam off the northern coast of Oahu island, Hawaii. Would they have been leatherbacks? | Shane Gough-Breaks | 25 Nov 2008 | |
| We have had Monarch Butterflys here at Calabash Bay, on Roatan for about three weeks now, they are not plentyful, in groups of two or three, and spend their time flying between purple nettle flowers.… | David Swain | 24 Nov 2008 | |
| I saw an Osprey flying Southeast over Arctic Street NW5 on 14th Sept, 2008 at approx 1300hrs | Pete Mantle | 24 Nov 2008 | |
| In Nov 2006 I was on a dive rib en route from Sodwana Bay (South Africa) to a dive site, when someone spotted a male whale shark. We entered the water and I was privileged to be able to swim alongside… | Dave W | 23 Nov 2008 | |
| It is an interesting topic & a good piece of information by Â鶹Éç. | Karthik | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| I am usally scared of sharks but these look so peaceful and calm, I forget that I am scared of sharks. | Alice | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| I live and work in Perth, WA - I'm often sent videos of whale sharks off the NWS due to our subsea operations - it is absolutely amazing to see these animals at some very deep locations but also very… | Phil Bremner | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| I have never seen a shark in water, but I would love to see one but would most probably be terrified. | Maude | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| This rocks! | Jessica | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| I swam with a baby whale shark off the Maldives, totally awesome and very memorable, but they are getting rarer to see, are they reducing in numbers or moving on?? | Nic Townsend | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| Year 9 at the Dubai British School have been looking at Dr. Meekan's work as part of their Key Stage 3 Science in the News course. In particular we have been interested in his theory about whale shark… | Andrew Homden | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| Went diving with Whale Shark's in Donsol, Philippines - amazing to see at first hand | Stephen J Nicholls | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| Please send audio vidoes of the world's largest fish | Chirwa Eric D | 22 Nov 2008 | |
| My home internet service is dial-up. In my spare time at work, I take advantage of broadband connection to find more on interesting subjects. I also download podcasts and have been listening to a Docu… | Heather Cumming | 21 Nov 2008 | |
| I live in the middle of Carmarthenshire in sheep country. The land around here is mostly quite un-improved. Most of the fields have sheep in and are grazed close. There is a common above our house whe… | Beverley Griffiths | 20 Nov 2008 | |
| I have lived on the north side of the Ribble Estuary (Warton marsh) for nearly 6 years. A flock of about 20-30 curlew has had a regular presence on the area of marsh I can see for the entire period. T… | Andrew Elliott | 20 Nov 2008 | |
| Re. David Spooner's observations and your reply: this is not the place for a creation vs. evolution debate (I know, I know) but when you say "This is not the case" to 'you say there is a "designer"' y… | Paul Underwood | 19 Nov 2008 | |
| I love to listen to Radio 4 very much. Today I happened to look through the main page, the large whale caught my interest. The moving radio sounds fantastic. | Gloria Chen | 19 Nov 2008 | |
| Ddo you have a migration theme on tigers? | Daniel McIver | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I saw what I believe to be a salmon this morning (Tue 18 Nov), dead and half-eaten, way up within a couple of miles of the source of the South Tyne (OS Grid Ref NY758394). It was about 2 foot long. I… | Jules Cadie | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| Hi - I was just responding to Brett's comment on the programme this morning that curlews in North Worcestershire were a thing of the past. Whilst out cycling on 13/06/07 I saw a pair of curlews in a f… | Tim Grapes | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I haven't looked particularly for curlews, but I have the impression that they are around here all year round. We live a mile from the sea, and the farm land here is just below sea-level, but dry than… | Chris Bradley | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| When my neighbour moved here 50 years ago she could hear the Corncrake. I have lived here 6 years and have seen a drop in numbers of the Curlew, and this year was the first that there were no breeding… | Rosey Thompson | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I retired from teaching a few years ago and have more time to explore and observe nature first hand. I go wandering at the foot of the Moorfoot Hills just outside Edinburgh and this year noticed more… | Robert Hunter | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I moved to Wernrheolydd, midway between Abergavenny and Monmouth in Monmouthshire, just over fourteen years ago. For a number of years, between five and ten breeding pairs of curlew appeared in the fi… | John Brown | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I want to see a whale shark, I missed them in NZ, Australia, and Thailand!! | Paul Anderson | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| The problem is that the whale shark meat is so valuable in China that if a whale shark is caught it can mean the the man or men who caught it need not work again for the rest of their lives. I was luc… | Stuart | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I try to listen to all nature programmes on my computer (the Â鶹Éç does this very well) I would have liked to have been a marine biologist when younger. I live in a tree covered area called the Vega (So… | Neil Armstrong | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| I LOVE the Beeb website (news, radio, sport) & Â鶹Éç Canada & World News TV - Absolute quality thanx !! | Andy Illingworth | 18 Nov 2008 | |
| Thanks for sharing, it is really encouraging! There are only few osprey stay in Shanghai every winter, they are rare and I have not seen they hunting...There are lots of harriers though in Shanghai, I… | Jing | 17 Nov 2008 | |
| Awesome. More like this needs doing before the existence of sharks altogether is damned. People need to know about the large-scale slaughter of sharks in their natural habitats, it's a shame that, in… | Dan | 16 Nov 2008 | |
| I am very interested in wildlife all over the world and enjoy the Â鶹Éç service | William James Munro | 16 Nov 2008 | |
| Hi mig name is Mads Ole Kristiansen in 2008 hawe bein narwhal radio in SIUNNERTALIK i hwant hawe video film to narwhal radio ved harbund. | Mads Ole Kristiansen | 16 Nov 2008 | |
| Hummingbird hawk moth seen feeding on lavender 14 nov. 2008 | Charles Johns | 15 Nov 2008 | |
| I live in the Canary Islands. I allow the milkweed plant to increase and have a goodly number of Monarch butterflies. They seem to be here all the year but, do they have a migration pattern to Africa… | Gillian Emery | 15 Nov 2008 | |
| I need to know about Painted Lady Butterflies ANY INFO IS GOOD | Mr. Smith | 14 Nov 2008 | |
| I am taking a yacht to the Hebrides next summer doing a charter, and would like if possible to see Basking Sharks and also to observe as much wildlife as we can. Where are we most likely to encounter… | Rob York | 14 Nov 2008 | |
| Can you imagine walking down the beach, and suddenly this huge killer whale comes out of the surf on to the beach beside you. Wow. That would freak me out. Then this huge killer whale drags you out an… | Michael D. | 14 Nov 2008 | |
| Still 3 birds today (14/11) on East Lothian coast between Port Seton and Longniddry; apparent family party, female and 2 juvs; feeding well around upper beach and over coast road in very mild but wind… | Stephen Welch | 14 Nov 2008 | |
| My brother saw a swallow in Lothersdale, North Yorkshire today November 3th! Surely this is unusual? | Jeremy Gott | 13 Nov 2008 | |
| Sighted two swallows several minutes apart heading SW today in the afternoon. This is the latest date I have ever seen them still in the UK. I would have thought that there is very little food left fo… | Simon Flisher | 11 Nov 2008 | |
| Are Jays starting to frequent gardens more than they did? I regularly see a Jay in my garden now but never saw one in the past. | Maureen Gillet | 09 Nov 2008 | |
| Guys u rock........ this stuff is soo amazin and guys.......... can u get me more info on migrating "BIRDS" | Soniya Shah Rukh Khan | 09 Nov 2008 | |
| Thanks Â鶹Éç Radio 4 for your intelligence. How do I send you a photo of a Monarch taken September 20, 2008 on Mt. Sutton, Québec, Canada? A hundred km south of my location, but a long-long way from Mex… | Douglas Davidson | 09 Nov 2008 | |
| For this first time we have seen Goldcrests, Chaffinches & great tits in our garden. | Mr Robert McFadyen | 08 Nov 2008 | |
| What is a wildbeest species? | Amy | 07 Nov 2008 | |
| What is a wildbeest species? | Allie | 07 Nov 2008 | |
| I holidayed, with my family, on the Norfolk Broads in September. We had the privilege of observing an osprey on the upper reaches of the river Bure (between Wroxham and Coltishall) over a five-day per… | Mary Sanders | 07 Nov 2008 | |
| Hi just wanted to tell you that I just seen a hummingbird hawkmoth in my backgarden.09.15am of 05th of Nov 2008At first I thought it was a native UK hummingbird but after a little research I quickly f… | Mark Phillips | 05 Nov 2008 | |
| We recently spotted on three afternoons (August) at the same flight path at Dungeness, 1615 hrs a night heron flight path sw across road towards nature reserve HQ. We consider ourselves quite privileg… | Michael Cleary | 05 Nov 2008 | |
| A lot of big toads here, why do they repeatedly wait outside the door to be let in? | Andi Main | 05 Nov 2008 | |
| Re the Commomn Toad. Having seen your map on sitings-would just like to confirm that there are plenty of toads in south Brittany in the Morbihan area about 3 km from Locmine. Not only were thye in the… | Natalie Carlile | 04 Nov 2008 | |
| I saw one in the North of Serbia during the last week of September. Is that unusual; shouldn't it have migrated North by then? | Sarah Leedham | 04 Nov 2008 | |
| Amazingly we saw two juvenile swallows happily feeding on 2nd November at the RSPB reserve at Campsfield Marsh in Cumbria. There were still insects around but we are assuming that these swallows are n… | Claire Godfrey | 04 Nov 2008 | |
| Upon rising on October 27th I saw a Red Admiral butterfly on the curtain of the hall window. I opened the window and the butterfly flew away | William Dickens | 04 Nov 2008 | |
| We saw a lot of monarchs in North Carolina during mid-October, both in the Piedmont, and at Wilmington. | Janet Quested | 04 Nov 2008 | |
| Saw several Monarchs in Madeira between 25th-31st October | Steve Akrill | 04 Nov 2008 | |
| I am sure I saw a monarch catterpillar two years ago in the Kyrenia mountains, munching its way through a wild carrot, until suddenly it stopped. I thought it had died, but no - it had started to pupa… | Leonie Brittain | 04 Nov 2008 |
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