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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 08:12:33 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Great Tit</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[GREAT Tits will join bands of blue tits at the bird feeder and it's then that you can see where they get their name, they're bigger than their cousins.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[STARLINGS used to be so common the sheer weight of them perched on one of Big Ben's arms once stopped the mechanism.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[UP until the mid 19th century, magpies were very common but were then hunted and killed by gamekeepers concerned they were killing other young birds.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[HOUSE sparrow numbers in the Guardian area have dropped dramatically compared with ten years ago but they are still the most common garden bird here.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[COLLARED doves originate in the Mediterranean but finally spread across Europe and into the UK during the Second World War.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[EVERYONE can recognise a blackbird with its yellow beak but the females are brown and often have spots or streaks. There is no mistaking the blackbird's mellow, musical song, which ends in late summer and is rarely heard again until the following years breeding season starts. They are solitary birds, rarely seen in a group and the males are territorial, getting quite aggressive when other birds invade their space.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[ROBINS love people; they train us to find food for them by digging the garden and reward us by being almost tame enough to perch on our hands.]]></description>
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