The Extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew

Say hello, well, goodbye, to the latest bird to bite the dust- the Slender-billed Curlew. The loss of its breeding grounds in Kazakhstan to wheat farming as part of the Soviet Union’s Virgin Lands Campaign was a major blow to the species, and further loss of habitat coupled with hunting finished the job. The bird was last spotted conclusively in Morocco in 1995.

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