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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Deer should be culled to save bird song because they are wiping out woodland species

Deer must be culled to stop cherished birds such as the nightingale and willow tit from dying out in Britain, experts warn. 

The populations of these endangered birds have more than halved in a decade, according to the British Trust for Ornithology. 

It warns that an explosion in deer numbers may be affecting some woodland birds to a greater extent than realised, as they eat the shoots of leaves and shrubs which the birds depend on for cover and nesting sites.   Read Here

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