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Keep your distance from the animals and don't feed or pet them - you may be fined.

Close-up of a brown, streaked stonechat perched on a metal fence, facing left against a blurred green background

Stonechat

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Stonechat

Stonechat

Stonechats are a familiar sight and sound on New Forest heathlands, with a call that sounds like two stones being struck together.

This photo of a juvenile was taken at a Species Survival Fund project site in farmland where new hedgerows had been created.