Remove Breeding Remove Horses Remove Hunting Remove Monkeys
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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. We found Black-collared Swallows breeding in cracks among the lower riverside rocks. Yet, we had a good two hours or almost 50 kilometres by 75 horse-powered speedboat to reach Inirida at sunset.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Horses bolted. Yet, think a bit about what our world would be like if the Passenger Pigeon still existed.

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