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...“Celtic Christianity can be romanticised and put up in a mystical cloud,” says Catriona Robertson, warden of Iona Abbey....
...I also had to buy a widely available bird food online. No buckwheat flour is available locally — another mail order item....
...It was a long, sensational day of wildlife sightings, with an evening spent listening to the beat of hornbill wings as the birds headed off to roost....
...Photography by Landon Speers Which is your favourite park in New York, and why?...
...were transformational: Knepp is now home to the country’s largest population of rare purple emperor butterflies, 13 of the UK’s 17 species of bat, and more than 600 invertebrate species; turtle doves, a bird...
...We were also happy to learn about the bird life: the blue-bellied rollers and Senegal lapwings, the European bee-eaters and chestnut-backed sparrowhawks....
...According to the Living Planet Index maintained by WWF and ZSL, the FT’s Seasonal Appeal partner for 2019-20, 60 per cent fewer vertebrate animals (mammals, bird, reptiles, amphibians and fish) live wild...
...The birds are worth the trip in themselves; on the way back, we are buzzed by a hornbill that looks, and sounds, like a pterodactyl....
...In fact, there were few breakouts this year, and the closest rival to last year’s Lady Bird would be Jonah Hill’s adorable low-fi indie Mid90s....
...Thirty-five years old — the park warden Memory tells us — Sebo isn’t driven by ego like the younger, stick-throwing males, relegated to nests in the trees above us....
...The Ascension frigate is one of the world’s rarest birds....
...I didn’t sign up to be a gallery warden. If the painting was there when you arrived and it is part of the listed contents, you must look after it....
...“There were a lot of birds around the camp. He told me it was studying them that stopped him going crazy.”...
...Poachers, game wardens, locals, farmers: everybody burns in Zambia, they explain, to encourage fresh growth, to clear vegetation, make animals easier to poach, as defence against ticks and insects and so...
...Davidson Mugisha, a former park warden who runs an eco-tourism company, Wildlife Tours, worries about sustainability. “Relying on one product I think is dangerous,” he says....
...Johnson, whose wife was Lady Bird, danced to the tune of My Fair Lady in 1964....
...And it hasn’t just unsettled me, it has unsettled the birds as well....
...In Golders Green, our oak panelled and stained-glassed synagogue had an air of late Victorian ecclesiastical grandeur about it: “wardens” in ceremonious top hats, installed in a special boxed-in pew at the...
...Park authorities also say that more than 140 wardens have lost their lives guarding the park since Congo’s 1998-2003 war. Block 5 forms the most southerly of a string of blocks that border Uganda....
...“Don’t worry about traffic wardens,” says the shopkeeper, who notices my nervous glances towards the window. “You’re on Dorset time now.”...
...Lundy is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and is cared for by two wardens and an island ranger....
...My wife, Jane, and I are out walking the pathways of Arne Heath in the company of RSPB warden Mark Singleton and his colleague Rob Farrington....
...As warden of a hall of residence, he can notify everyone instantaneously if the hot water is about to be switched off or a lift is out of action....
...“The locals used to eat the birds’ eggs.”) He laughs off the very idea of landing on the rock. “Even if we could get you on, the wind could change and you’d be there for weeks.”...
...Although she had been an air raid warden in London during heavy bombing, she felt no sense of triumph to see the ruins of Hamburg or Düsseldorf or Brunswick....
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