Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape.
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