10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

I’ve been to the Sounds before, but I had never visited them specifically to bird, which means I hadn’t seen the specialities there. New Zealand Fur-seals are the most common pinniped found in New Zealand. The reason Alan had come was to film another endemic, a critically endangered species, the Orange-fronted Parakeet.

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Charlotte New Zealand Seals Fur 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population. But the ferrets kept dying.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

These species have seen the infamous Brink of Extinction, seemingly gone over the edge, and have scrambled back to solid ground in the nick of time…with a little extra help. birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 206

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

Over 40 species of South African endemics can be found in the Cape – Cape Sugarbirds, Cape Rockjumpers, Orange-breasted Sunbirds to name but a few. But there is one Cape bird that stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to character – the African Penguin. But in the early 1980s something remarkable happened.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 217