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Madagascar’s Lost and Found

10,000 Birds

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). This bird was kept in captivity until it died a year later.

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When birds attack!

10,000 Birds

No, you see, the males are pretty defensive about their young, and in the breeding season will aggressively attack what they perceive as a threat to their nest. It is also worth clarifying that these attacks are not a “nuisance” People go to hospital suffering from eye injuries and falls from bikes.