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

10,000 Birds

Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. It’s a lot harder to ignore conservation campaigns to save habitat when you’ve seen the ‘photographic record’ of what happens when you do. And remembered.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy. The Kirtland’s Warbler…the reason that one day, almost every birder in the U.S.

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