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Extinction Week Recap

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It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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Cruel of Beak and Bottomless of Maw

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In fact, should anything smaller than an elephant seal wander into the territory it will be rewarded not only with copious amounts of warm milky guano but a thorough battering. Some gulls are particularly good at hunting the Ashy Storm-petrel, a species which also has its stronghold on this island.

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

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02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate. 01–15 Who could forget the catfish that figured out how to eat birds ? With global warming, this has meant earlier hatching.

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