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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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Pink Pigeons were once found throughout Mauritius, but by the 19th century the population became fragmented and by 1986 only 12 or 16 pigeons remained, depending on your source of information, less than 12 by 1991. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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Not the worst way to die, to be eaten by such an attractive bird as a Japanese Sparrowhawk … The Handbook of the Birds of the World and its online version still have not managed to prepare a species account for the Amur Stonechat – there is a separate page for the species, but all the information on there is for the Common Stonechat.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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A paper describes how a Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (which looks a bit like somebody had kicked Donald Trump in the nose, which in itself may probably not be such a bad idea) ate three Chinese Babax chicks from a nest in Shennongjia National Park. ” Everybody wants to lay the groundwork, nobody wants to go into details.

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