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Once common in most
parts of the British Isles, owing its name to the poultry
keeper's fears for her chickens, the Hen Harrier is now rare in this
country. To
find it nesting one must visit such places as the islands of the Orkney
Group. It
was on Mainland, Orkney, that our picture was obtained. It shows a female
at her
nest tending her five Young ones. Her owl-like facial disc should be
noted, for it is
characteristic of these fine hawks, even if not so obvious in the pale
grey-blue male.
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