Trabancos (river) Castile and León (with more than 200 mating pairs). It is also the winter season nesting ground of more than 1,500 red kites ("Milvus milvus"). There are also numerous birds of prey; the most abundant are Montagu's harriers ("Circus pygargus", 50 mating pairs) and lesser kestrels ("Falco naumanni"; almost 150 mating pairs), but there are also hawks, goshawks, falcons, owls, and others. The region is also host to numerous gamebirds, including the red-legged partridge ("Alectoris rufa"). Despite their importance, the population of little bustard ("Tetrax tetrax") in the region appear to be diminishing. Although not all the species protected in
Little Birds 'little birds' of the title story refer both to the actual birds used by its exhibitionist protagonist to attract young schoolgirls to his attic, and (metaphorically) to the girls' flight when he finally exposes himself. In other stories, Nin calls into question the objectifying tendencies of the male gaze; both male and female complicity in masochism; and the pornographic genre itself through her subtle subversion. While writing her erotica, and organising that of her fellow writers such as George Barker, Nin referred to herself jokingly as the "madam of this snobbish literary house of prostitution" for a client who examined