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Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi

10,000 Birds

Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. This post was first published in February 2010, but a bird this cool and inaccessible deserves more attention! ). Wikimedia Commons: Atlantisia rogersi.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

million people (2010 census). Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7% However, there are a whole lot more Ghanaians now!

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