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James Delingpole

The heartbreaking story of Pecky, a young green woodpecker

26 August 2017

9:00 AM

26 August 2017

9:00 AM

Ever since I was a child, I’d always yearned to see a green woodpecker. With its scarlet cap and lime-green body, it looks far too colourful and exotic to be a native species. But it very much is, as you can tell from the fact that it has a rustic nickname — the yaffle.

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