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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

Gujarat, December 2010. CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry! CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry! Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? Did I counted some pile of dirt as a bird?

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Sandpiper Species Heading Towards Extinction

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The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia. Tags: birds hunting endangered species. Really sad.

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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. With its deep chestnut-red breast, exquisite head pattern and black and white body it’s an exceedingly handsome bird, and one that never fails to attract admirers when one turns up in Britain.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This book is the story of his search for his grail and what he does with it and why, a quest that took place from 2005 to 2010 in the Russian province of Primorye. Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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