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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

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Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. Its only black plumage is a bold stripe that runs across the bird’s face” Scientific research has found that these ducks get together more closely if you feed them with bread.

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

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They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. 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? Amsterdam Duck. Ascencion Crake. Mauritius Owl.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species!

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