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The Cocha Antshrike

10,000 Birds

He was very alert now, scanning the right bank with his eagle eyes. Before my first trip to the tropics many years ago I always wondered how is it even possible that new bird species are discovered with all the deforestation and general habitat obliteration going on all over the world. But still new species are found.

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The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird

10,000 Birds

It’s a species that I was able to see and photograph while visiting Australia last Christmas, or at least it would have been, had it ever existed. It is one of the many species that went extinct in New Zealand, only for once it didn’t. But it seems the story wasn’t so clear cut.