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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Djibouti Francolin. The eight species above still exist. Most species go extinct.

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