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Teal Lake Shiraz (2019)

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Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. The quacker in question was named Ripper, a drake Musk Duck raised at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!) In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. crowned-pigeons and is thought to have been a close relative. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.