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Nature 389, 330-331 (25 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38605
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Conservation biology: The hen harrier and the grouse
Robert M. May1
In Britain, the hen harrier, Circus cyaneus, is a beautiful but scarce bird of prey, today found mainly on moorland in Scotland. In the early 1800s it was both more abundant and more widespread, but loss of lowland habitat and human persecution in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries effectively eradicated it from mainland Britain.
- Robert M. May is in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
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