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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

10,000 Birds

Guyana is probably most famous in birding circles for the unlikely discovery of a population of critically endangered Red Siskins in early 2000. Decades of trapping for the pet industry drove them to the brink of extinction, and their survival into the future was seriously in doubt.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. For endangered species, red and gray tabs at the top of the page indicate level of threatened status from the IUCN and the Libro Rogo de los Vertebrados Cubanos (Red Data Book for Cuban Vertebrates). Garrido and Arturo Kirkconnell (Cornell Univ.

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