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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

10,000 Birds

Hunting and disturbance, deterioration, fragmentation and destruction of habitat were the forces behind the decline of this, once widespread species, making it Critically Endangered on the IUCN Global Red List. After my trip, I followed the news of this species closely. Males reach 1.2 meters (3.9

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The Rarest Bird I’ve Ever Seen

10,000 Birds

It wasn’t that long ago that Sociable Lapwing was considered a critically endangered species with a population of only around 1500. They nest on the vast central plains of Asia and winter in inhospitable places like Iraq and Pakistan, and rarely visited places like the White Desert of Kutch in Gujarat.

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