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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

The believability of this is underscored by the fact that the Pilgrims and their guides listed among their possession numerous “fowling pieces” … for hunting wild birds. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. Which would be weird. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird.

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