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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

10,000 Birds

They often become slower breeders, and most importantly, they lose their ability to disperse, meaning they get stranded on the island they live on. Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things.

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