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I was slow to miss the birds. I couldn’t tell you when the last alarmed lapwings spiralled the sky or the last ringed plover trailed away from my footsteps. To meet two other waders that used to nest there, the little dunlin and red-necked phalarope, I needed adventures in northeast Greenland. The ravens still fly past my house, honking a greeting on their way from the mountains to the sea. They’ve always been great scavengers, yet now I have to think of them as potential predators on the eggs and young of waders – predators just like foxes, badgers, mink, hooded crows, the bigger gulls.
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