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The slender-billed curlew is extinct

Ruben Bolling
Nov 20, 2024
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After almost 30 years without a substantiated sighting, researchers have concluded that the slender-billed curlew is extinct. It is the first mainland European bird to go extinct in the last 500 years. Link to an article by Josh Davis at the UK's National History Museum's website is here.

The slender-billed curlew was a small wading…

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