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The bird was larger than the Mikado pheasant, Taiwan's biggest living endemic bird.
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Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists completed an analysis identifying traits that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500 ...
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