Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK

Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK

One of the first white-tailed eagles to fledge in England for hundreds of years has vanished in suspicious circumstances, alongside two more “devastating” disappearances of the reintroduced raptor. Police are appealing for public help as they investigate the disappearances, which are a setback to the bird’s successful reintroduction. Their disappearance is being investigated by several […]

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Wait there’s wild hamsters? Oh yes – and they’re fuzzy, feisty, and just as cute and podgy as your childhood pet, just 4 times the size

Wait there’s wild hamsters? Oh yes – and they’re fuzzy, feisty, and just as cute and podgy as your childhood pet, just 4 times the size

When I was a child in the 1930’s,” recalls 86-year-old farmer Marcel Riegel, “hamsters were incredibly easy to catch. There were so many that they ate bare patches into our alfalfa and wheat field.” Now he never sees them. “Before the land consolidations of the 197oS,” Riegel continues, “we had hamsters, hares, partridges, orchards and […]

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