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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

10,000 Birds

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home.

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Olson’s Petrel. Viti Levu Scrubfowl.

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