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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. And, over time, they become a new species. Pretty much every rock big enough to sustain land birds has been reached by rails and then colonised by rails.

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