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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

10,000 Birds

May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. When one Chinese researcher was very bored, he had a bright idea: Why not publish a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Rhinoceros Hornbill ? Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.