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The Nature of Scotland The Magazine of Scottish Natural Heritage Issue Number 11 — Spring 2011
Published quarterly © SNH 2011 ISSN 1350 309X
Editor: John Walters Tel. 01463 725 222
Cover photo: This male hare was part of a group of males that had been following a female around. He kept licking his upper lip as he'd been kicked in the mouth by the female. Sometimes these rebuffs by females can result in the males losing the sight of an eye or they can even prove fatal. Photographer: Danny Green Inside cover photo: Boxing hares. Courtship involves boxing, and this well-known ‘mad March hare’ behaviour actually involves unreceptive females fending off passionate males. Photographer: Mark Hamblin Welcome page: Rainbow over the coast at Kintradwell, north of Brora in Sutherland. Photographer: Lorne Gill/SNH
Photography – all images by Lorne Gill/SNH other than: David Whitaker 7b, 38t, 39t, 40b; Terry Andrewartha/Nature Picture Library 9; Laurie Campbell 7a, 7c, 17, 18, 20; Graham Burns/BTCV 12, 14; JM Roberts 19; apply pictures/ Alamy 21; Dougie Barnett/SNH 22, 45a; Mike Lane/Alamy 23; Kishor Dangol 28, 30, 31, 32, 33; Andy Rouse/
naturepl.com 34; SSPCA 35; Steve Moore/ SNH 42a; Nathan McLaughlan 42b; Donald Rice 42c; Ewen Cameron 43a; 43c; Max Wilson44a; Jonathan Swale 44b; Dougie Barnett/SNH 45a; Tess Darwin 45b; Liz Douglas 45c; Mark Hamblin 52, 63; Sulwath Connections Project 54, 56, 57; Trevor McDonald/NHPA 61.
Map, 37 – © Ashworth Maps and Interpretation Ltd 2011. Based on Ordnance Survey mapping. © Crown copyright and database right 2011. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number SNH 100017908.
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