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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. And if we keep exploring the undelved nooks and crannies of our globe, we’re sure to make up the difference, right? How many have we lost, have we never even known? What a horror!

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Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

More importantly, it is a fantastic area to watch birds in its own right. 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.

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