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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. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Djibouti Francolin. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Olson’s Petrel.

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