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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Djibouti Francolin. And it is a rate of extinction that is speeding up! Here, eight more names. Mariana Crow.

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