“Often there’s been the odd egg or chick which has disappeared but this year it’s been extraordinary. It’s been a virtual wipe-out,” he explained.
“It’s part of nature and usually with predators they don’t have a huge effect on the animals that they’re predating upon, but in this particular example they are having that effect and it’s just unfortunate.”
- Hoodie havoc among bird life on Bangor harbour, BBC.co.uk, July 19, 2011.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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