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"If a child hasn’t ever got their hands dirty looking for bugs, how can we expect them to care about the natural world?” RSPB president Kate Humble...
Corn Buntings
18th June 2010
A flock of corn buntings recorded in a farmer’s field in Stotfold in Bedfordshire in January was estimated at 700 – 4 per cent of the entire UK population, according to the RSPB.
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