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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

10,000 Birds

An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species. The Barn Owl Trust places nest boxes on lands of willing farmers who, Darlington says, consider it a “badge of honour” when an owl comes to nest in one.

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