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Résumé :
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All diurnal raptors and owls have been protected by law in Norway since 1968-1972. Since then, most species that had been heavily persecuted earlier (eagles and hawks), and those especially susceptible to environmental pollution (Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus and Osprey Pandion haliaetus) have increased in numbers. A national monitoring programme for the terrestrial environment in Norway, which also includes population monitoring of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos and Gyrfalcon F. rusticolus, was established in 1990. Monitoring of environmental pollutants in eggs of diurnal raptors and owls on a country-wide basis was started at the same time. A data series on pollutant levels in eggs of several species covers a time-span of up to
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