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Hotspur’s Revenge: A Review of Three Books

10,000 Birds

Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. What’s magic about 1970?

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