Eco Kids Planet Magazine – March 2026 Issue 137 – Eco Kids Planet Magazine

Did you take the quiz on pages 10–11? Now it’s time to discover your riverside alter ego, depending on which description you chose. Otter The Social Adventurer Grey Heron The Patient Watcher Salmon The Determined Upstreamer Dipper The Quietly Fearless Water Vole The Gentle Defender Freshwater Pearl Mussel The Long-Game Guardian Water Shrew The Relentless Dynamo Kingfisher The Flash-Fast Finisher Beaver The Master Builder Frog The Adaptable Leaper Dragonfly The Bold Patrol Leader Grass Snake The Silent Glider Wildlife Wildlife News!

News! news and photos here this month. And there’s also my annoying little brother Rusty’s page! And don’t forget about me – Rusty! Rhona’s helper: JD Savage Twenty four photos are shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year’s People’s Choice Award. Now it’s the public’s turn to be the judges! I’ll show you five of my favourites. This amazing image raises so many brain- boggling questions! A loo roll factory near Ramsbottom is recycling its paper waste into bedding for chicks and other farm animals!

Maybe some of it will actually get to clean a ram’s bottom! Rusty, can we please keep Wildlife News CLASSY? A risky moment here for a couple of bear cubs playfighting… in the middle of a road! UK photographer Will Nicholls took this one in Jasper National Park, Canada. Bears are often seen there, but cubs aren’t so much, as their mums tend to keep them away from any threats.

This pair’s mum won’t be pleased to see them playing there! Researchers watched a bonobo having a make-believe tea party, tracking invisible juice and imaginary grapes. That suggests apes can enjoy pretend play just like humans! Like you pretend you’ll be prime minister, Rhona? That’s not pretend, Rusty, This photo by Chris Gug from the USA shows a young crab hitchhiking on a jellyfish in the night-time sea!

He spotted it while scuba diving in Indonesia. Is the crab catching a ride to save energy? Is it using the jelly’s stinging tentacles as protection from predators? Or could it be using the jellyfish as a platform to spy out small fish to eat? And might the crab’s sharp feet damage the jellyfish’s delicate bell?

© Chris Gug/Wildlife Photographer of the Year © Will Nicholls/Wildlife Photographer of the Year Here’s a fascinating image by Peter Lindel from Germany. It shows three young kestrels preparing to leave their nest for the first time and fly to a nearby beam. He took the picture from his living room in Dortmund. It shows the moment when the birds seem to be thinking about how to reach the beam.

It was only 80 centimetres away. Still, it took them nearly a week to pluck up the courage to take the leap! Most nights, this mum and her baby joey were just foraging for fresh leaf buds, insects or anything else they could eat. This time, the joey mirrored its mum on top of the branch.

Welcome to your new issue 4 A Waterside Walk Secrets waiting at the water’s edge 15 European Beaver Poster 21 River Ghost Poster 30 Eco Kids Quiz Planet Puzzles, games and jokes 32 Over to You Competition winners 34 Build a Mini River Monthly project 35 The River Writes Back Monthly competition 10 Which Riverbank Creature Are You?

Find out in our quiz! 8 Charlie Meets a Water Vole …and a bubble-sniffing water shrew What’s inside this Design: Nebojsa Dolovacki Illustrations: Leah Ingledew 12 Who Do Rivers Really Belong to? Eco Kids debate PLUS! To subscribe, visit www.ecokidsplanet.co.uk Editor: Anya Dimelow Contributing Editor & Writer: JD Savage Writers & Contributors: Katharine Davies, Daisy Fox, Christine Modafferi For subscriptions, please call 0800 689 1365 ISSUE ISSUE 26 Weird Waterways Simon investigates…

All images: © Shutterstock (unless stated otherwise) Eco Kids Planet is published 11 times a year, monthly except for combined double July/August issue, by Eco Kids Planet Ltd. 17 Wildlife News Rhona and Rusty report 22 A River Through the Seasons Amy explores… Cover: Water vole © Dr P. Marazzi/SPL 2 The river moves. I do not. Hello, Eco Kids.

Stillness is my skill. Beneath the mirrored surface, fish drift in slow arcs, silver backs flashing and fading in the shifting light. A careless flick of a tail sends a ripple through the water and into my bones. I wait for that mistake – the tiny shiver that changes everything. Then I move. Not slowly. Not twice. My neck uncoils, my bill cuts the surface, and the quiet river breaks.

For a heartbeat there is spray, shadow and silver. Sometimes I rise with a fish, sometimes with only river water dripping from my bill. Either way, the current closes as if nothing happened. But the river is more than a hunting ground. It is a boundary and a meeting place. I have stood on these banks through frost and flood, watching the water swell and shrink, turn murky with rain, then clear again. I know the deep pockets by the bend, and the shallow gravel runs where small fish dart.

I know which branches will hold my weight and which will snap without warning.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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