The little village of Egleton in Rutland is a calm and tranquil place 1. (suurimman osan vuotta). But for the three hectic days every August, birders arrive 2. (tuhansittain) for the annual British Birdwatching Fair. The ‘Birdfair’, as it 3. (know), occupies the middle ground between the Chelsea Flower Show and the Glastonbury Music Festival – 4. (ainakin) in terms of the age, social class and background of its participants. And while it may not 5. (voida) boast the cachet of 6. ( ___ ), or the coolness of THE LATTER, it is still the unmissable event for birders; not just from Britain, but from all over the world.
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A whistle-stop tour of the Birdfair reveals much about the nature of birdwatching at the beginning of the twenty-first century. People come here to meet old friends and make new 7. (pronomini), attend lectures and 8. (ilmoittautua) foreign birding tours, simply to sit outside the beer tent and soak up the sunshine. 9. (Aika ajoin), if they get tired of the crowds, they can even wander around the nearby nature reserve to watch the birds.
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Visit the Birdfair, and you will see the unmistakable 10. (partainen) figure of Marek Borkowski from Polish Wildlife Tours, one of the great pioneers of conservation and birding in Eastern Europe. Over the next three days Marek and his wife Hania will 11. (kätellä) several hundred people, many of whom 12. (persuade) to visit their picturesque wooden house in the Biebrza Marshes, where they can watch White-backed Woodpeckers and nesting Hoopoes WHILE 13. (enjoy) even more Polish hospitability.
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Today birding is one of the world’s most popular pastimes, as the many visitors to the British Birdwatching Fair bear witness. It is pursued 14. ( ___ ) millions of people, of different ages, cultures and social backgrounds, in every country on earth. And it brings an incalculable degree of pleasure and satisfaction to 15. ( ___ ) who do it.

Stephen Moss, A Bird in the Bush, London, 2005