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“The Wise Hours” — a review

10,000 Birds

She accompanies Luke on his Barn Owl counting, a heartening and optimistic chore now that British farmers have learned to prefer owls, as a pest control method, to strychnine, which kills rats but also the owls that feed on them.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

And I didn’t pay enough attention because one very dark eagle flew by at the same time, an adult Greater Spotted Eagle. Two hundred yards further, we found another Greater Spotted Eagle! we will kill it!”, These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here.

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