Raptor Ruin

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It’s an intercontinental phenomenon that has researchers stumped. Barn owls are getting killed by the thousands on the highways. Barn owl roadkill greatly outnumbers that of other raptors, and other animals, and it’s happening from Idaho to Britain. Producer Guy Hand reports.

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