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It might look adorable, but the stumpy and dangerously endangered
From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says John Lewis-Stempel
Threatened with extinction in the 1960s, the mighty peregrine–with its astonishing speed and super strength–has staged such a remarkable comeback that its now more successful than it was in the Middle Ages
Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world
A cold-water nomad with a voracious appetite, the overfished cod may be dwindling in numbers, but it is still a big beast of the sea
The rise and rise of raptor species has been a major success of the past half century, but it may well have been the downfall of the common kestrel
B ecause it’s the school summer holidays, it’s ...
