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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

September 11, 2014 by Duncan No Comments

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

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Comebackers

September 9, 2014 by Felonious Jive 6 Comments

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on...

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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

September 8, 2014 by Corey No Comments

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

September 7, 2014 by David 2 Comments

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even,...

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

by Clare M No Comments

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. There are only approximately...

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Bokmakierie

August 30, 2014 by Redgannet 1 Comment

I have never quite made up my mind how this beautiful bush-shrike’s name should be pronounced. I favour stressing the penultimate syllable with a...

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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

August 29, 2014 by Suzie 4 Comments

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. To civilians who may have...