He told BBC Look North, buzzards were often targeted because of concerns they could attack pheasants.

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Items stolen included ornaments, paintings, jewellery from Cartier and Tiffanys and a pair of silver pheasants.

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In the woods above Housesteads Fort, the butterflies come out and pheasants flop off into the bracken.

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Lucas spent a fortune planting more than 2, 000 adult trees to encourage the foxes and pheasants that thrive in the area.

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Pet-Tayto Corner features rabbits, ducks, geese, pheasants, 10 different types of rare birds and lots of especially colourful and unusual hens.

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Jacques Legros and Lise Marcotte raise ducks, geese, guinea fowl, pheasants and wild turkeys, and keep a colourful garden of organic grains and vegetables.

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Dahl's books are full of the grotesque, from Mrs Twit substituting worms for her husband's spaghetti, to child-eating giants in the BFG, and the hero of Danny the Champion of the World drugging pheasants so that they're easier to poach.

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