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Nigel Collar, Rory Crawford, Alex Dale, John Fanshawe, Rosa Gleave, Sarah Havery, Shaun Hurrell, Louise Jasper, Irene Lorenzo, James Lowen,
Ed Parnell, Judith Rumgay, Liz Smith, Andy Symes, Rachel Treharne
DECEMBER 2016
NUMBER 4
VOLUME 38
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Seven shades
of red
The promise
Rachael Treharne
54 THE INTERVIEW
Shaun Hurrell
Arjan Dwarshuis
The biggest year
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Shaun Hurrell
The silencing
of the songbirds
58 PREVENTING EXTINCTIONS
James Lowen
A tern for the better
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Shaun Hurrell
Cryptic by name,
cryptic by nature
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Irene Lorenzo
Rosa Gleave
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62 I AM NOT A RARE BIRD
Down to the wire
Shaun Hurrell
Urban Tree Sparrow
throng in Hong Kong
& Sarah Havery
Louise Jasper
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Prospects pick up
for Pacific parakeet
Life begins at 40
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Ed Parnell
64 SPOTLIGHT: MEDITERRANEAN
Together: local solutions
for nature conservation
Shaun Hurrell
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77 POETRY
Widening the net
Recalled to verse
Rory Crawford
John Fanshawe
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78 BCI
A sight for Azore eyes
Bird Conservation
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Gone
but not forgotten
Papikonda National Park
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