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Endangered and extinct birds
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Jennifer Boothroyd,Intuitive,Intuitive Intuitive |
"Northern rockhopper penguins and colorful pufflegs are two examples of endangered birds. Few of them exist in the wild. Other birds have already gone extinct. What hurts these animals? What can you … |
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The world's rarest birds
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Erik Hirschfeld |
"This illustrated book vividly depicts the most threatened birds on Earth. It provides up-to-date information from BirdLife International on the threats each species faces, and the measures being tak… |
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The passenger pigeon
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Errol Fuller |
"At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they bla… |
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The lost world of the moa
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Richard N. Holdaway,T. H. Worthy |
"This book investigates one of the richest and most unusual faunas in the world, one that thrived in isolation for 80 million years, but that over the past two millennia has been reduced to a shadow … |
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Glimpses of paradise
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Penny Olsen |
The history of the Paradise Parrot - from its 'discovery' in the 1800s to its extinction in the 1920s and how claims of sightings have continued to the present day. |
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The Shivering Ground & Other Stories
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Sara Barkat |
The Shivering Ground & Other Stories is a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, a collection of weird fiction with a steampunk aesthetic.
In "The Door at the End of the Path" a young girl dis… |
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The passenger pigeon
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Susan Dudley Morrison |
Discusses the history of the passenger pigeon, which at one time made up one-quarter of the birds of America but is now extinct. |
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Wonders of flightless birds
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Sigmund A. Lavine |
Discusses the first bird, extinct birds including the roc, great auk, and dodo, and forty-six living species of birds that lack the power of flight. |
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