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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

10,000 Birds

“Rabeneltern” – raven parents Raven parents, raven mothers, raven fathers – shame on you all, for you are neglecting your children. This goes so far as to hunters even using a very unique hunter’s jargon for the various activities related to hunting, or the names of the different parts of animals they hunt.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador.