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Wonderful news and great photographs! Thank you!

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Jun 15Liked by Laura Erickson

Conservation success is the Kirtland's. However, studying extinct birds and why they went extinct leads to the best conservation management practices. I lump them in similarity duos. These two warblers, the Carolina Parakeet and another migratory parrot, one of two left, Australia's Swift Parrot, Critically Endangered, and the US Extinct Ivorybill, and the US Endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Lessons learned. But yet wait. The IUCN has the Ivorybill as Critically Endangered. A new analysis of previous vocal data has confirmed the supposedly ivorybills. It's being reviewed by experts. It's slated to be published by July 7, I believe, but I'm not sure the review process will be on time. Do you have an organization I can send it to with attention to you in the subject?

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I'm not working for or directly associated with any organizations anymore--I do my work independently. I hadn't heard anything about the vocal data--I didn't think anyone heard vocalizations at all--just "double knocks." So this will be interesting!

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