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The Medicine Bird

10,000 Birds

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress. If all her other toes eventually function perfectly, she could still hunt without that one non-essential talon.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

It describes how, when a veterinary drug used in India killed the vast majority of Indian vultures, the human death rate in affected locations increased by about 4% as the vultures were no longer around to feed on animal carcasses and the sanitation thus worsened substantially.