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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

This attitude of superiority and arrogance can be seen in the recent story about a researcher on the Solomon Islands who mist trapped a bird not seen by scientists for fifty years. How it raised its chicks? The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species. Or how gracefully it flew?

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The bird today is documented physically by only a single specimen (a second was lost), but where the specimens were collected — and therefore where this species actually lived before its extinction — is unknown. Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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