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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

10,000 Birds

Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror!

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