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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Know what else kills grassland birds? Or maybe you’re visiting Belize, Guatemala, Paraguay, or the Bahamas? The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S., Meanwhile, in San Jose, Calif.,

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.

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