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Horrible Hybrids

10,000 Birds

My most memorable encounter with a non-wildfowl hybrid was some years ago in Finland, when I was taken to a Blackgrouse lek where two c**k Racklehahns were present. A falconer’s Peregrine hybrid, but what’s was its full parentage? The Racklehahn is a well-known hybrid between a male Blackgrouse and female Capercaillie.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

10,000 Birds

When it is seen that A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d, that is taken as a sign that the natural order has been disturbed (there, by Macbeth’s act of regicide).

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