Falling birds and dehydrated hedgehogs: heatwave takes its toll on UK wildlife

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The Guardian reports conservationists said animals were eerily still as they tried to shelter from the heat. Experts fear that record-breaking temperatures could cause a further collapse in insect numbers, with bumblebees and butterflies among those most affected. 

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