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Numbers declining nationally.

THE STONE CHAT.
STONE-SMITH, MOOR-TITLING.
. . . They build at the roots of bushes, or underneath stones, carefully concealing the entrance to the nest by a variety of arts: it generally alights at some distance, and makes it approaches with great circumspection, creeping along the ground in a winding direction, so that it is a difficult matter to discover its retreat. . . . Buffon compares its note to the word wistrata frequently repeated. Latham observes, that it seemed to him like the clicking of two stones together, from which circumstance it probably may have derived its name.
- Bewick's British Birds, Vol. I, 1797

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Despite the nationally declining population, numbers on dartmoot have incresed to about 1,600 pairs in recent years making the population internationally significant

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