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Madagascar’s Lost and Found

10,000 Birds

Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. However numerous expeditions failed to produce any evidence of the bird and in 2006 the IUCN reclassified Madagascar Pochard as “possibly extinct”.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

10,000 Birds

This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Madagascar, however, is beyond the reach of this book, notwithstanding its also being part of the Afrotropical region.”

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