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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. Conservation efforts continue and now include education and awareness campaign among the local communities that own the land were the Guans still occur.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. Some document one of the last views of the species, others are of the last representative of the species. more than there really was to see!” (p. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004.

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