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Unruffled feathers

Was the bird on the Algerian goal net a “laughing dove” or simply a mocking bird?
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Sir, Simon Barnes (Comment, Sport, June 21) says that the bird on the Algerian goal net was a “laughing dove”. I thought it was a mocking bird.

Charles Cuff
Southampton