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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group

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Monitoring populations in Norfolk through the BTO licensed ringing scheme. All birds and activities under taken under the appropriate licenses, including schedule where appropriate.

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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Monitoring Morston yesterday, with the lack of summer migrants was a low return visit with just Total: 10 (2) Blackbird - 1 Blue Tit - 3 (1) Chiffchaff - 1 Dunnock - 2 (1) Reed Bunting - 1 Robin - 1 Wren - 1 @morstonpond.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2/2 At the north end by the dump we found 8 or so by the reeds. Again despite them being very active they evaded us. Stonechat total form the project was none. We did manage 15 Blackcap 1 Goldfinch 2 Greenfinch 1 Meadow Pipit 9 Reed Bunting 1 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/2 Visit to Dersingham Bog as part of the Stonechat monitoring. As they left their roost instead of heading south to the bank, today in relative calm conditions they headed out north into the open bog area, where they remained. Another try for a pair as we drove the track proved fruitless.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Monitoring Sculthorpe Moor yesterday resulted 66 (7) Blackcap 1 Blue Tit 41(4) Cetti's Warbler 1 Chiffchaff 9(1) Dunnock - 1 Great Tit 7(1) Marsh Tit 0(1) Reed Bunting 1 Reed Warbler 1 Robin 2 Treecreeper 1 @norfolknats.bsky.social @hawkandowl.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Stonechat colour ringing project took us to Dersingham Bog where we added more birds to the data set, with 7 new Stonechat, in total 23 birds. Chiffchaff - 2 Linnet - 5 Meadow Pipit - 8 Robin - 1 Stonechat - 7 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Monitoring at Morston yesterday resulted in Total: 34 Blackcap - 5 Blue Tit - 5 Chiffchaff - 1 Dunnock - 3 Linnet - 1 Reed Bunting - 9 Robin - 1 Stonechat - 5 Whitethroat - 3 Willow Warbler - 1 @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @morstonpond.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Monitoring at Morston today produced a moderate 22 (1) - Blackcap - 3 Chiffchaff - 2 Dunnock - 5 Reed Bunting - 1 Reed Warbler - 1 Swallow - 1 Whitethroat - 7 (1) Wren - 2 @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @morstonpond.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Monitoring Sculthorpe Moor today turned out to be a relatively quite Total: 14 (2) Blackcap - 4 Blue Tit - 1 Chiffchaff - 6 (1) Grasshopper Warbler - 1 (juvenile) Treecreeper - 1 Wren - 1 (1) @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @hawkandowl.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A repeat visit to Salthouse on the1st resulted in 2 Pied Flycatchers, one re-trap and another new. Total: 74 (6) Blackcap - 13 Blue Tit - 33 (4) Chiffchaff - 9 Coal Tit - 1 Dunnock - 2 Garden Warbler - 1 Great Tit - 7 (1) Pied Flycatcher - 1 (1) Robin - 5 Whitethroat - 2 @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
2/2 Blackcap - 10 Blue Tit - 27 (1) Chiffchaff - 7 Great Tit - 2 Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Long-tailed Tit - 1 Pied Flycatcher - 3 Robin - 1 (1) Wren - 2 @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
1/2. Monitoring at a site in Salthouse resulted in Total: 54 (2) Whilst there have been quite a few Pied Flycatchers about we didn't exactly expect them here at the back of the village, but over 5 hours 4 were seen and seemed to be moving east, 3 of which were ringed.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Monitoring Deepdale Farm today was relatively quite, just 19 - 18(1) birds. Blackcap 6 Chiffchaff 7 Great Tit 1 Robin 1(1) Whitethroat 3 @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @deepdalecamping.co.uk
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Monitoring Sculthrope Moor am today resulted in 46 (5) Blackcap - 6 Blue Tit - 13 (1) Chiffchaff - 11 (2) Great Tit - 4 Long-tailed Tit - 1 Reed Warbler - 4 (1) Robin - 2 Nuthatch - 2 Whitethroat - 3 Wren - 0 (1) @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @hawkandowl.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Monitoring Ingoldisthorpe last night resulted in 38(1): Pied Wagtail 3 (roost) Reed Bunting 1 Reed Warbler 4 Sedge Warbler 7(1) Swallow 23 (roost) @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Monitoring Sculthorpe Moor today resulted in Total: 64 (4) Blackcap - 11 Chiffchaff - 29 (1) Great Tit - 1 Reed Warbler - 13 (3) Robin - 1 Sedge Warbler - 3 Willow Warbler - 3 Wren - 3 @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Monitoring Deepdale Farm today resulted in Total: 48 (3) Blackbird - 1 Blackcap - 10 (1) Blue Tit - 2 Coal Tit - 5 Goldcrest - 0 (1) Great Tit - 1 (1) Green Woodpecker - 2 Long-tailed Tit - 6 Robin - 2 Song Thrush - 1 Whitethroat - 13 Wren - 5 @deepdalecamping.co.uk @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Monitoring Ingoldisthrope last night resulted in Total: 53 (2) Pied Wagtail - 7 (roost) Reed Warbler - 6 (1) Sedge Warbler - 6 (1) Swallow - 34 (roost) @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #Ringinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
2/2 Morning 7th Total: 55 (2) Blackcap 6 Blue Tit 2 Chiffchaff 16(1) Jay 3 Kingfisher 1 Long-tailed Tit 3 Marsh Tit 1 Reed Warbler 8(1) Robin 3 Sedge Warbler 2(1) Whitethroat 4 Willow Warbler 1 Wren 4(1) @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
1/2 A few days monitoring at Sculthorpe Moor resulted in Evening 6th Total: 10 (1) Reed Warbler - 5 (1) Sedge Warbler - 5 Morning 7th Total: 55 (2) Blackcap - 6 Chiffchaff - 30 Reed Warbler - 9 Robin - 2 Sedge Warbler - 1 Whitethroat - 3 Wren - 4 @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Southern Migrant Hawker Sculthorpe Moor 9/8/26 @norfolknats.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @hawkandowl.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hi John - thanks for your reports via iceni.shinyapps.io/sightings/
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Chris Lamsdell @chrislamsdell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Monitoring Ingoldisthorpe last night produced 38 birds Blackcap 2 Cetti's Warbler 1 Chiffchaff 1 Pied Wagtail 7 (roost) Reed Warbler 1(4) Sedge Warbler 9 Swallow 11 (roost) Whitethroat 2 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Friday at Dersingham Bog, we added three Stonechat to the colour ringing project and monitoring Nightjar at dusk added an un-ringed adult Nightjar. We were joined by Frank Street a reserve warden from the Fens, who ringed his first Nightjar. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Monitoring last night at Sculthorpe Moor did not produce the hoped for Swallow roost, maybe the Sparrowhawk present played a role, but 21(4) birds Cetti's Warbler - 1 Chiffchaff - 1 Grasshopper Warbler - 1 Reed Bunting - 3 Reed Warbler - 13 (4, 2 from 2024) Sedge Warbler - 2 @hawkandowl.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Monitoring last night Ingoldisthorpe lagoons resulted in 72 (5) Blackcap - 6 Blue Tit - 1 Chiffchaff - 1 Greenfinch - 8 Pied Wagtail - 12 Reed Bunting - 3 Reed Warbler - 9 (3) Sedge Warbler - 9 (2) Song Thrush - 1 Swallow - 17 Whitethroat - 4 Wren - 1 @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Monitoring at Sculthorpe Moor yesterday produced a total: 41 (10) Blackcap - 5 Blue Tit - 9 (2) Chiffchaff - 3(1) Dunnock - 2 Great Tit - 1 (1) Marsh Tit - 1 Reed Warbler - 2 (1) Robin - 2 (2) Sedge Warbler - 6 (2) Whitethroat - 2 (1) Wren - 8 @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Monitoring last night at Deepdale Farm produced 12 birds Blackcap - 3 Chiffchaff - 1 Great Tit - 1 Lesser Whitethroat - 1 Whitethroat -4 Wren - 2 Adults after a busy breeding season of some species are now having to manage moulting into new feathers @deepdalecamping.co.uk @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
2/2 Two Oystercatchers received codes with a third only large enough to take a metal ring. Three well grown Ringed Plover chicks became the first colour marked birds that Blakeney Point staff have been able to add to a joint project with the RSPB/NOA. @norfolknats.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
1/2. Yesterday we joined the warden and staff at Blakeney Point hoping to find Little Terns, Oystercatcher and Ringed Plover chicks suitable as part of three separate projects. We only got a single Little Tern as the the chicks that we were targeting had actually fledged just before our efforts.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Blackcap information AVZ0661 an adult male on 9/7/2026 at Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk was originally ringed on 9/9/2025 at Brick Kiln Meadow, Suffolk .Time between sightings: 303 days. Distance: 87km @deepdalecamping.co.uk @burnhamdeepdale.co.uk @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Foxley Wood today limited Butterfly numbers but a few Silver-washed Fritillaries including a Valezina form, a couple of Purple Emperors on the usual oak sap run, two Migrant Hawkers and up to 8 Brown Hawkers @norfolknats.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Today was habitat maintenance day at Deepdale farm, so while we did this we managed 23 (3 retraps ) Blackcap 7(1) Blue Tit 2 Chiffchaff 3 Goldcrest 2 Great Tit 2 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Whitethroat 4(2) Wren 2 @btobirds.bsky.social @deepdalecamping.co.uk #BirdRinging @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
2/2 Total: 47 (6 retraps) Blackbird - 1 Blackcap - 7 Cetti's Warbler - 1 Dunnock - 1 Greenfinch - 2 Pied Wagtail - 2 Reed Warbler - 4 (6 2 from 23 and 3 from 24) Sedge Warbler - 4 Sand Martin - 1 Swallow - 22 Whitethroat - 2 @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/2. Evening on 8th saw us at the River Trust lagoons at Ingoldisthorpe which turned out to be a productive evening as the site had a few Swallows roosting and quite a few Pied Wagtails. Several fledged Marsh harriers were hunting nearby and a Quail flushed from the grass.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
2/2 This area on Scolt Head shows the tell tale patches of feathers where avian predators pluck prey before returning to the nest. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/2. 8th saw us back on Scolt Head to finish off training of one of the NE staff to ring Oystercatchers as part of a study looking at low survival rates starting next year. Also to ring Little Terns, but the few surviving pairs had all fledged.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
2/2 We did put a net up at dusk and caught a male, which was unfortunately un-ringed as we had hoped to find birds previously ringed on site or elsewhere, as we had the previous year, a bird that had been ringed on the Bog 9 years previous, which was brilliant. @norfolknats.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/2 Been a busy few days checking out Dragonflies, but on the evening 7th we needed to put time into the NE tracking Dersingham Nightjar foraging area study. We were unsuccessful with the female that had been located, and this year is proving hard to find breeding birds that the study focuses on.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Monitoring on a North Norfolk farm again last evening brought 10 birds including 3 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 4 Whitethroat, plus a Blue Tit and another adult Quail @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
seems to be the spot this year, they seem to ground less often than other woods, possibly due to lack of what nutrients they find int he soil elsewhere
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Monitoring on a North Norfolk farm last evening brought 13 birds including 4 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat and a Lesser Whitethroat, all juveniles and an adult Quail @norfolknats.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Monitoring at Sculthorpe Moor today resulted in 23 birds, with juveniles out and about, all Warblers with 13 Chiffchaff, Willow, Grasshopper & Reed Warblers, and 7 Sedge Warblers @btobirds.bsky.social @hawkandowl.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
2/2 Ringing date: 24-Mar-2025 Site name: Yasmina, Merzouga, Morocco, Morocco Ringer: Spain (Catalonia), -11 Finding date: 15-Jun-2026 Site name: Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve, Norfolk Duration: 448 days Distance: 2435 km Direction: 10deg (N) #BirdRinging @norfolknats.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/1 Not many Sedge Warblers are recovered in the UK ringed in Morocco - this one had a Spanish ring, the one caught the same day at the same place with a Moroccan ring, the details are still awaited. Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) Scheme: ESC Ring no: B131139 @hawkandowl.bsky.social
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
3/3 Total for Scolt Head colony 2026 - 494 Black-headed Gull - 106 (plus one with metal ring only) Mediterranean Gull - 136 (plus 25 with metal only) Sandwich Tern - 212 (plus 4 with metal only)
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
2/3 Black-headed Gull - 27 ( plus 1 with metal only) Mediterranean Gull - 88 (plus 11 with metal only) 2 with metal only last time given darvic rings Oystercatcher - 4 (plus 2 with metal only) Sandwich Tern - 11
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/3 Another visit with Natural England for the afternoon primarily for addition Gull colour ringing and start of the Oystercatcher colour coding. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
2/2. Some interesting movements from last years birds has already emerged, along with productivity data. The furthest travelled was a Sandwich Tern to Namibia in it's first winter. Plus, some of last years Mediterranean Gulls are back in the colony this year.
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Iceni Bird Monitoring Group @icenibirdgroup.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
1/2. Scolt Head Gull and Tern pulli ringing day (19th) with Natural England yesterday resulted in 201 Sandwich Tern, 79 Black-headed and 62 Mediterranean Gulls ringed, most also fitted with colour rings. @btobirds.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social #BirdRinging
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