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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. Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Djibouti Francolin. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Olson’s Petrel.

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