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Clan chief joins fight to shield rare birds from Highland pylons
The head of a famous clan and his supermodel sister have joined a campaign to prevent electricity pylons from damaging a tiny wood that is home to four of Britain's most endangered birds of prey.
May 12, 2005
by Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent
in Telegraph, London
The head of a famous clan and his supermodel sister have joined a campaign to prevent electricity pylons from damaging a tiny wood that is home to four of Britain's most endangered birds of prey.
Lord Lovat and his sister, Honor Fraser, fear that a line of pylons could kill the birds, including one of the first pairs of red kites reintroduced to Britain.
The kites share less than one square mile of mixed woodland with a pair of peregrine falcons, a pair of ospreys and a pair of honey buzzards.
All four species are on the... [continue via Web link]
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