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Edward’s Pheasant

10,000 Birds

It has not been seen in its small home range in central Vietnam since around 2000. Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action. Conservationists searched intensively in 2011 but found none.

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Big Ticks; What Was Your Last New Family?

10,000 Birds

I got my first Emus ( Dromaius novaehollandiae ), family Casuariidae, in West Australia back in 2000. Here in New Zealand te only potential big tick would be a lost vagrant painted snipe, and we’ve already established that I don’t enjoy that kind of vagrant hunting.

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