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Filling the Gap Left By DeBooy’s Rail

10,000 Birds

Back in 2009, Tai Haku sent us a fascinating post exploring a question that ecologists worldwide grapple with: can the translocation of rare species into niches left empty by extinction be successful or justified? It is extinct. It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos.