Word: blackcaps
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...bird called the blackcap has been showing up in Britain lately, in droves. Seems these birds of the forest, which used to winter in the western Mediterranean, have changed their migratory routes. German researchers studied some blackcaps and their offspring, and report in Nature that the change is genetic; responding to some environmental signal, the birds' hard-wired migratory instructions have evolved in an astonishingly short 30 years...
...Where did De la Mare get that line: 'But she walking there was by far the most fair'? It's not manufactured. He was rather like a cup under a sparkling fountain." As he holds out his own cup, Hodgson is constantly "as interested as a blackcap working his way into a stone wall looking for spiders...
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