"The had already disappeared from English rivers by the , and the wolf had almost gone; one was killed in in 1212, and there are a few scattered mentions from the remainder of the century; a few may have continued on the until the end of the fourteenth century. The rabbit was first introduced into England at the beginning of the twelfth century, and by the 1160s was probably familiar over much of the country. The raucous cough of that bird beloved of poachers, the , seems to have part of the English woodlands' sound-scene from about the same time: the species was certainly present by 1170."
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