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On Friday, 14th March 2025, 400 students, staff, faculty and partners came together at the 20th Anniversary Student Gala in London to celebrate the success of the ESCP London Campus at the beautiful London Landmark Hotel.
The Annual Student Gala is the highlight of the social life at ESCP London Campus, and this year’s event was particularly special, marking ESCP’s 20th anniversary in London. Established in the UK in 1973, ESCP was initially based in Oxford before relocating to London for the start of the 2004/05 academic year.
Expertly hosted by an ESCP staff-student duo, Prof Ben Voyer, a Cartier Chaired Professor of Behavioural Science at ESCP Business School, and Matteo Girelli, a Master in Management student, the event welcomed a record number of students from 8 different programmes and guests from Paris and Madrid, celebrating many achievements and successes of the London community over the last year.
I was intirigued by the behaviour of this korimako at the view platform by the upper dam at Zealandia, Karori Sanctuary. It was flicking around the fencing at the edge of the platform looking particularly under the pieces of angled metal stays that made up the topline and standards. After a while I realised it was taking spiders and insects hiding under the curved metal. This was mid July (winter) so I guess the usual diet of nectar and fruit was scarce.
The Bellbird is a passerine bird endemic to New Zealand. It has greenish coloration and is the only living member of the genus Anthornis. The bellbird forms a significant component of the famed New Zealand dawn chorus . It has a bell-like song which is sometimes confused with that of the Tui. The species is common across much of New Zealand and its offshore islands as well as the Auckland Islands. The bellbird is found throughout both the main islands of New Zealand apart from the north of the North Island. Its population and distribution had been seriously affected by the introduction of European-style farming, which has led to the removal of native forests (the natural habitat of the bellbird). Another important factor is the introduction of predatory species such as cats, weasels, stoats, ferrets, rats and food-robbing species like wasps. Predators either eat the birds or consume eggs, while food robbers compete with the bellbird for its natural food sources of nectar, honeydew and insects. The decline occurred around the same time as many other New Zealand species, but for unknown reasons was reversed and the species is still common across much of New Zealand, however it had become locally extinct in Wellington and has been re-introduced to the area in the Karori sanctuary.
Today, on our walk, Yannig curled up in the grass at my feet, or tried
to hide himself in a hedge.
Although there were a couple of explosions from the quarry that startled
him, he has indeed got used to these.
He didn't enjoy his walk in the way he usually does. That is to say he
didn't run around and explore.
Back home, pretty normal, though this morning he ran round and round he
garden in a frenetic fashion. That's not usual, either.
COMMON RAVEN Corvus corax, Presumably a pair, unusual behaviour , landing on balconies, 790 Springland Dr, Ottawa ON Canada 28 April 2018
Kim Fisher 175 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UE (44)07788 776012 t.co/YXwvAMJDzS (via Twitter twitter.com/kimfishercbt/status/712954698681036801)
This gull was flying around with a large stick in it's beak. It then tossed it up in the air and followed it down and grabbed it. It then flew back up to about the same height, and then did it again a number of times.