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862 breeding pairs of cirl buntings were recorded in Britain in 2009, a 25% increase since 2003, according to the RSPB. Despite the increase, however, the species is still...
Italian snails
30th June 2010
It took 102 years for a colony of Italian snails to be discovered at the National Trust estate of Cliveden in Buckinghamshire. Experts say the snails must have arrived when some marble was shipped from Italy in 1896, but they were only found in 2008.
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