THE BBC has left viewers baffled after apparently excluding Scotland from one of its top news stories ...
has left Scots baffled after it wrongly claimed a bird which can be seen across the country has actually been extinct “in Britain since the 1900s”.
As the BBC host told viewers:"The osprey has been extinct as a breeding bird in Britain since the 1900s, but numbers have now started to grow in England and Wales. But government agency Nature Scot estimates that there are in fact somewhere between 250 and 300 breeding osprey pairs in Scotland – the lion’s share of the population across the whole of the UK.
"There have been ospreys nesting at Loch Garten since I was a wee girl and I am a pensioner!" another added.
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