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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. Guans have also been introduced in the Laquipampa Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Adam Castillo.

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Out and About with the Cumberland Bird Observers Club

10,000 Birds

After we got back to the cars everyone pulled chairs out and sat down for a cup of tea (I had neglected to bring some but was not to go without thanks to the hospitality of these fine people). I talked to an American visitor from Hawaii who had brought his wildlife-mad son along. Not that we lingered to look, we were on a mission.

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