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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Rail against the Keeling zone: The Cocos Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi). WWF maximum cards/ maxicards/ dorincards from Cocos/Keeling Islands. Also a list of memes for each of the 7 days.


"The Cocos Buff-banded Rail, Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi, is an endangered subspecies of the Buff-banded Rail endemic to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian Offshore Territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.[2] The local Cocos Malay name of the bird is Ayam Hutan("Chicken of the Forest").[3]"
"Population size is estimated as 850-1000 birds, with a population density of 7-8 birds/ha.[4]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocos_Buff-banded_Rail

So 7-8 birds/ha...Huh? So there are fewer birds, 850-1000, than the number of stories that this woman told: "Scheherazade (pronounced /ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːdᵊ/), sometimes Scheherazadea, Persian transliteration Shahrazad or Shahrzād (Persian: شهرزاد Šahrzād, Arabic Šahrazād), is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheherazade

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Please visit the World Bird Wednesday meme!

http://pineriverreview.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-bird-wednesday-xiii.html?showComment=1297808501189#c4454000911280491119

Here's a list of various memes for each of the 7 days:
http://l.wbx.me/l/?instId=54ea593a-1f58-499a-b8a7-792698221e1a&token=57f05a5bb1a360a4918974a9c8a7a648719085710000012e1eb6b606&u=http://www.memeaholics.blogspot.com


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4 comments:

  1. mickFebruary 15, 2011 at 11:05 PM

    Interesting pictures of the birds. It's so sad to see bird populations decreasing across the world.

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  2. PatFebruary 16, 2011 at 10:14 AM

    Lovely bird-a shame it is endangered. Is there any effort to foster a comeback of the population?

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  3. SpringmanFebruary 16, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    It is a solemn moment when any creature nears the moment of extinction. Lets hope the Cocos Buff-banded Rail has many times more than 1,001 nights left!
    ;-)WBW

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  4. SondraFebruary 19, 2011 at 8:28 AM

    I hate to read this--its not a good world when an entire species is disappearing. Thank you for a glimpse of this awesome bird.

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