Wild Things: A rare birding treat
Our Wild Things columnist Eric Brown explains why it always pays dividends to keep searching for rare wildlife even after it seems you have hit your…
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Wild Things Column: Two Turtle Doves
Fantail Turtle by Tony Dunstan Christmas is nigh so let us consider a bird featuring in a popular festive song. Quite why the turtle dove appears in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has baffled me for years. After all, this beautiful brown-backed dove is thousands of miles away in balmy Africa, not feeling the cold wind beneath its wings in Europe during Yuletide. Much is still unexplained about a song believed to be of French origin. The two turtle doves mentioned represent the Old and New Testaments according to religious interpretation. Three French hens and a partridge in a pear t...
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