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Alain Rémond’s chronicle
I learned, while reading La Croix of June 10, 2026, that the slender-billed curlew is officially declared extinct. The death certificate is signed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which dates back to 1996 his total disappearance. This is, specifies the IUCN, the first official extinction of a bird on the surface of the globe. We can therefore only talk about it in the past tense. Write, for example: it looked like the Eurasian Curlew. And no more: it looks like the Eurasian Curlew. It’s so funny.
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