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A group of wide-eyed burrowing owls is capturing hearts in Southwest Florida after they were spotted perched peacefully in a ...

So to study them, Holt stomps into the brush like an Imperial AT-AT Walker, enduring burdock thistles and inch-long hawthorn spikes and 3-foot-deep dry stream channels as he flush ...

Figure 5. Changes in the abundance of breeding birds of woodland, farmland, upland and all-species in Scotland. Learn more about interpreting Bird Indicator graphs. Source: BTO, SNH, JNCC, RSPB.