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Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi

10,000 Birds

Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. So desirable was it, however, to find out what this flightless rail was like that he left collecting material with the late Rev.

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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

People ask me about my favorite story in the collection. He’s only about the size of a rat.”. I didn’t have high hopes for Fizzle’s survival, but I called animal control and learned that they had taken Fizzle to a shelter about ten miles away. I gave the shelter a call, expecting to hear the worst.

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