Can you imagine the Pennines without the Pennine Finch?
Twite are on the verge of extirpation in England. Their last stand is in the ‘Twite Triangle’ between Manchester, Leeds and Halifax.
All of life on Earth is related, with a common living heritage stretching back three and a half billion years. Every single being alive is a survivor of an unbroken genetic lineage going back for generation after generation. This Twite’s mother’s mother’s mother’s… and so on for 320 million years was the same small lizard-like animal as your mother’s mother’s mother’s… and so on.
That genetic heritage, that richness of life on Earth, that resplendent, magnificent beauty, is being despoiled and wasted forever in the blink of an eye in evolutionary time.
How could we be so cavalier with our shared inherited wealth?
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Twite There's a Pennine Finch on barbed wire. That's a cue for me to lift my lens up: Lovely, aren't they? read more
A flock of Twite and an inside leg measurement I'm walking one of the sections of coastal path on Westray. At least a path is what I call it.… read more
A Heather Lintie at the Castle o’ Burrian Twite are such beautiful birds. Their subtlety is exceptional, with the softness of their stripes and the paleness of their… read more
Two little Twite, sitting on a wall I've spent this week honouring Twite, a wonderful, curious, much-overlooked bird. Twite live in weedy fields and moorland, or at… read more
The death of the Yellow-Billed Linen-Weaver The scientific name of the Twite is Linaria flavirostris. Linaria means linen-weaver and flavirostris means yellow-billed. Twite are Yellow-Billed Linen-Weavers.… read more
Step on Watching Twite is a delight. Every time one jumps, the others bob up and down, too. We've been photographing a… read more
A small brown bird which few people care about Welcome to Twite Week at The Hall of Einar. Twite are small brown birds. To the uninitiated they might look… read more
Twite are seriously underrated Twite are such beautiful birds. They're small brown finches, closely related to Linnets. The subtlety of their plumage is just… read more
Twite on a wire There's a Twite on a wire. We're down to our last 10,000 breeding pairs. There's always a small, hardy flock… read more