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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

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Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. And, in South America, there is at least one species that is being heavily preyed on by North American Minks which are not supposed to be in South America. Their natural range is in a smallish region of southern South America.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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Yes, it’s nice to have information on 817 birds, and it’s wonderful to have full descriptions and photographs of birds commonly seen in Central and South America. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. The grand total is 817 species! SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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Colorful + Devious = Toucans of Costa Rica

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Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). There were birds to watch but they were the gulls and ducks on the river, the sparrows in the fields, the finches that came to the feeder, the beautiful American Kestrel on the roadside wire. Yes, this bird acts like a jay.