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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Djibouti Francolin. But that there are birds that no one will ever see again, ever, well…I feel like I should use lots of strong language here. But, really, I don’t have the energy for it. Here, eight more names. Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Iquitos Gnatcatcher. Chinese Crested Tern. Siberian Crane. Mariana Crow. Liberian Greenbul.

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Species Spotlight: Rose-ringed Parakeets

10,000 Birds

My very first Rose-ringed Parakeet was sitting in my dad’s plain tree in the middle of “the winter of discontent” The Iron Lady was moving into power and The Clash were topping the charts.

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