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Parrots: Brazil’s Colorful Avian Clowns

10,000 Birds

Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. Both of these endemic parrots suffer from habitat loss and trapping for the pet trade.

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Resurrection

10,000 Birds

The Stephen’s Island Wren suffered a fate common to many island species of birds around the world. For the wren, that advantage was taken away in 1894, when a pregnant cat escaped (Tibbles was a pet taken from the subsequent feral population). Island ecologies develop in fairly closed systems. Gone forever.