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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book was originally published in 2006 as Galápagos: A Natural History with John Kricher as the sole author. I don’t have a copy of the 2006 edition, but I was able to read selected pages via Google Books. copyright © 2022 by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin; copyright © 2006 by Princeton University Press.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 248

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

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MARCH 3, 2015

He has authored Woodpeckers of Europe (2004), Birding in Eastern Europe (2006), a monograph on The Black Woodpecker (2011), and numerous popular and scholarly articles. He was also an early social media adapter, and currently maintains eight nature and birding web sites, including one based on this book.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 242