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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Broad-billed Parrot. They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Djibouti Francolin. The eight species above still exist. And if we continue to do nothing more and more species will continue to blink out. Most species go extinct.

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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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