Where have all the merlins gone? A lament for the Lammermuirs

Earlier this year a peer-reviewed scientific paper was published in the journal British Birds, documenting the long-term decline of merlins on four driven grouse moors in the Lammermuirs, south east Scotland (see here). In that paper the authors, all members of the Lothian & Borders Raptor Study Group, detailed the results of their 30-year study […]
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