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VERY little is yet known about the effect of the War on bird life in Britain, though the secretary of the British Trust for Ornithology has appealed for information on the subject. It is easy enough to make a number of theoretical deductions from the known variations in ecological and other factors. The decrease of gamekeepers' activity should result in an increase of hawks and owls; the increase of arable and decrease of pasture land is bound to affect the balance of Nature in various ways; the felling of many woodlands will certainly make the woodland birds scarcer after the War; the reduction in the number of oil–discharging boats frequenting the British seas should result in a smaller death–rate among sea–birds; and so on.
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FITTER, R. EFFECT OF THE WAR ON BIRD LIFE. Nature 148, 59–60 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148059a0
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