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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

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. This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting.