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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;areich, post: 1488854, member: 37479&quot;]<b>Hungary - Montagu&#039;s Harrier</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[video=youtube;MJGaBnBxP6A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJGaBnBxP6A[/video]</p><p><br /></p><p>Montagu&#039;s Harrier is a favorite bird which had benefited from early agricultural practices until the use of powerful insecticides and newer, faster growing crops.&nbsp; By all reports, it is a very graceful flyer that lives from the Ural Mountains to Atlantic Ocean in most of temperate Europeand even parts of north Africa.&nbsp; In of itself, it is classified as having a &quot;least concern&quot; conservation status, but its health as a species has been subject of concern for several European countries who have made some adjustments in farming practices and behaviors for the benefit of the raptor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hungary claimed to have only 10 breeding pairs of the Harrier and put this graceful bird on a coin for the 25th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund.&nbsp; The result one of the most exciting coin designs I&#039;d ever seen for this 500 Forint 90% silver coin.&nbsp; It weighs 28 grams, and has a diameter of 40MM, making it one of the larger coins of the series.&nbsp; It was minted in the Hungarian mint (25000 coins) in proof.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/harrier/harrier.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The capture in engraving of the graceful wing span in action among the grasses is an outst[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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