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Big Ticks; What Was Your Last New Family?

10,000 Birds

The year before I only got one, the shrike-tits (Falcunculidae), although if you include mammals also I finally got my lifer wombat (Vombatidae) too. This particular Common Wombat ( Vombatus ursinus ), family Vombatidae, was the first I ever saw of the species and family.

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