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    SUMMER BREEDING: time to refine my pairs

    Jul 20, 2022 4 minutes

    AS I am writing this article, it is late June and over the past couple of months I have been reducing the number of breeding pairs that I have set. For most of the main breeding season I used 27, but I am now down to 18, with the intention of lowering the number to about a dozen for August. I anticipate that I will continue with this number throughout the autumn months.

    Since I started breeding in earnest again at the end of last September, I have ringed 160 chicks (20 with 2021 closed rings). With chicks still

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