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Extinction Week Recap

10,000 Birds

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. How many have we lost, have we never even known? Some of these giants were lost surprisingly recently – the last mammoths around 1700 BC.

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Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

Almost immediately I saw, very briefly, my only Double-eyed Fig-parrot of the trip, and heard a Leaden Flycatcher and some Blue-winged Kookaburras. We soon located two nests of Eastern Barn Owls , but were unable to find the Sooty Owls that make the site a drawn for many birders.

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