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The Vulturine Storks

10,000 Birds

I mention all of this because we in North America, especially the southern part of North America, have storks too. They’re beautiful birds, and an example of the way birds and humans can coexist more or less prosperously for centuries.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

10,000 Birds

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. North America certainly doesn’t want for wood-warblers, many of whom are more dramatic that the little canebrake dweller. Bachman’s Warbler was named for the renowned southern naturalist, Rev.