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Things I didn’t know that I didn’t know about British bees

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Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). Backed up by hundreds of excellent photographs, they have brought to life the bees of the British Isles.

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Adonis Blue

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Second they are reliant on Horseshoe Vetch on which they lay their eggs and on which the caterpillars feed. Rabbits are now thriving again after recovering their numbers and the Kent Wildlife Trust has implemented a grazing policy at Queendown Warren, with sheep and cattle, to supplement the rabbits’ efforts. The male is on the left.

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The Cry of the Curlew

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Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. One of the reasons they do well here is predator control, for Foxes are quite strictly controlled by gamekeepers and landowners in the area.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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Karlson, 2006, HMH), author of T he Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds (2011, PUP), and co-author of The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland (with Dominic Couzens, 2013, PUP) and The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors (with Jerry Liguori and Brian L. Sullivan, 2013, PUP). Barker and Carrol L. Harrison, 2005, PUP).

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Collaborative list – August 2018

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A new country, Ireland, was added to bring the total countries list to 48. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. 26 Aug 2018.

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