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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. A Sage Thrasher – a vagrant from western North America and only one of a handful of New York State records – was found on the other side of the Hudson River over in Columbia County in early November.

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