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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

10,000 Birds

In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat. When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. An exotic species (see Glossary) may appear in Florida because of deliberate transport and release by humans, or because of inadvertent escape from captivity. Americans love chicken.

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