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Fluctuating fortunes in a year of great bird books

Posted by: Ian Carter, Posted on: 26 May 2016 - Categories: Biodiversity, Wildlife
Common buzzard

...whose predatory habits can cause controversy. He began studying the buzzard on Dartmoor back in the 1950s when it was very much less common and widespread than it is today....

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