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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001. Those two questions are not mutually exclusive. Why migrate? In the words of the famous bird migration expert, Thomas Alerstam, birds migrate because the earth is tilted.

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