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Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck
Date:3/17/2008

nd more remote islands. Human population growth, the development of increasingly sophisticated watercraft, and the introduction of dogs and foxes to the islands probably put greater pressure on the birds. Eventually, the flightless duck, like great auk in the North Atlantic, had no place to run.


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