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• Norfolk bird surveyors find Britain’s oldest known oystercatchers

  24-04-2025 14:04
  
  Birds in their 40s wintering on mudflats of the Wash received leg rings in early 1980sIf your ears are assaulted by the shrill piping calls of an excitable bird on the east coast of England, fear not: it’s probably an oystercatcher experiencing a midlife crisis.Two of the handsome black and white birds with bright red-orange bills have been found to be the oldest known oystercatchers ever recorded in Britain, clocking up at least 41 and 43 years on the mudflats of the Wash. Continue readin
  
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• Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade

  24-04-2025 06:00
  
  Two Belgian 19-year-olds have pleaded guilty to wildlife piracy – part of a growing trend of trafficking ‘less conspicuous’ creatures for sale as exotic petsPoaching busts are familiar territory for the officers of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), an armed force tasked with protecting the country’s iconic creatures. But what awaited guards when they descended in early April on a guesthouse in the west of the country was both larger and smaller in scale than the smuggling ope
  
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