Wolf, lynx, great auk. An atlas of Scotland's lost wildlife
Wildcats and pine martens roamed through the woods of Britain. The sea eagle and the red kite soared. It was “the last great age of the wolf”.
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Wildcats and pine martens roamed through the woods of Britain. The sea eagle and the red kite soared. It was “the last great age of the wolf”.
In the early modern period, wolves, beavers, and probably some lynxes still survived in regions of Scotland and Ireland.
I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
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