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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. What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Djibouti Francolin. Olson’s Petrel. Viti Levu Scrubfowl. Maupiti Monarch.

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