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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Their relentless slaughter for ivory and trophies diminished the population from tens of millions to the less than 500,000 existing today.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport.

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