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Extinction Week Recap

10,000 Birds

It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. As climates are transformed, habitats plundered, and nonnative fauna carried to virgin hunting grounds, extinction rates are increasing.

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Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

Graceful Honeyeater ( Meliphaga gracilis ) Metallic Starling colony ( Aplonis metallica ) I got my Platypus just before dark; it was much smaller than I expected but utterly enthralling as it hunted along the river bank. The Northern Brown Bandicoot ( Isoodon macrourus ) is a marsupial of the forest floor.

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