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The Mysterious Lives of Globetrotting Birds

Gates Cambridge Scholars | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Willow Warblers, Africa, Bird Migration, Eastern Bar-Tailed Godwit, Student Life, European Cuckoos, Royal-Society-for-the-Protection-of-Birds, UK Universities & Education News
Gates Cambridge Scholars

Migratory birds make seemingly impossible journeys thousands of kilometres long. They cross oceans, high mountains and barren deserts to exploit the northern summer bounty and raise their hungry chicks.

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Richard Benyon's Bad Science - How Data is Ignored by DEFRA

Shaughan Dolan | Posted 23.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Politics News, Politics, Sandleford, Buzzards, Ecology, Conservatives, Royal-Society-for-the-Protection-of-Birds, Brian May, Richard Benyon, Badger Cull, Defra, Liberal Democrats, UK Politics News
Shaughan Dolan

The Minister for Rural Affairs has had an incredible year for ill thought-out policy u-turns.

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Long-Tailed Tits: No, Not an Intentional Pun on the Previous Blog

Peter Martindale | Posted 13.05.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Long-Tailed Tits, Bird-Watching, Rspb, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Ecology, English Gardens, Twitchers, UK Politics News
Peter Martindale

For the first time ever, I have seen long-tailed tits in the flesh. Having seen them written about and pictured in bird books since childhood, and having remembered for a life-time the details, due to their shear appealing looks, they were instantly familiar when I saw them in the trees some way away. Then when they continued their chase closer to the house, they were recognisable without a doubt.

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