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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Mauritius Owl. Amsterdam Duck. Djibouti Francolin. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Most existed on small islands far from major population centers. Olson’s Petrel. Siberian Crane.

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