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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. Djibouti Francolin. 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? Here, eight more names. Siberian Crane.

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