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Second osprey chick hatches at Scottish wildlife reserve

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Second osprey chick of the season hatches at Scottish wildlife reserve

A second osprey chick has hatched at a Scottish wildlife reserve, helping to secure the future of a species which was once extinct in Britain.

On Friday (20 May), a crack appeared on an egg in a nest at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve in Perthshire and by the early hours of the following morning, a baby chick had emerged.

Ospreys were extinct in Britain for much of the 20th century until the 1960s, when numbers began to recover.

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