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Can you email me a subbuteo template please, would really like to have a go at this!!
Sabbutoe template customizes Azmie aka switch image 2009
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I remember going on holiday to Knighton in Wales as a boy and finding they had a subbuteo shop in the town!
The day video almost killed the Subbuteo star | Harry Pearson 2011
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Raptors amongst the stabilised sands include 15 breeding pairs (about a tenth of the world's population) of the Spanish imperial eagle Aquila heliaca adalberti (VU), black vulture Aegypius monachus, short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus, buzzard Buteo buteo, black kite Milvus migrans, black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus, red kite M. milvus, and hobby Falco subbuteo.
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In one day you can see dozens of inhabited nests of different rare species of birds of prey (Falco tinnunculus, F. vespertinus, F. subbuteo, F. columbarius).
Kazakh upland 2008
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England I have received, within the last few years, one great grey shrike (Lanus excubitor, 1.), four or five hobby hawks (Falco subbuteo, 1.), a dozen or more merlins (Falco oesalon, Tunstall), and
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Falconidae, with special reference perhaps to the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), the hobby (Hypotriorchis subbuteo), and the lesser kestrel (Tin, Cenchris).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Russia it is (or rather was) so sociable that Nordmann saw them in numerous bands, with other falcons (Falco tinnunculus, F. oesulon, and F. subbuteo), coming together every fine afternoon about four o'clock, and enjoying their sports till late in the night.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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Thus we have the larger falcons, which prey upon birds, while some of the smaller species, like the hobby (Falco subbuteo), live largely on insects.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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As for the subbuteo tournaments, well, it brought back memories of rain and snowswept afternoons when inclement weather prevented the usual kickabout.
A Cultured Left Foot 2008
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28 January 2011 5:53AM best subbuteo accessory is the manager in the sheepskin coat
The day video almost killed the Subbuteo star | Harry Pearson 2011
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