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Leaping Foxes

10,000 Birds

The specificities of languages … Anyway, so Germany this year is essentially filled with mice, like the one shown here, which – so far as I know – is a vole where you come from. The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”