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Extinction Week Recap

10,000 Birds

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. Comebackers. 314 U.S.

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Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special

10,000 Birds

This fish hunting duck ranges from the northern tip of New Zealand to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands (after which it was first named) but is common nowhere. Everyone wants to pick off the most fiercesome night predator here, the Laughing Owl , but we’ll also be out looking for the New Zealand Owlet-nightjar. Laughing Owl.