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After cats wiped out flightless rails on Aldabra’s Picard Island, 18 birds were returned in 1999; by 2012, nearly 3,000 lived there

In 1999, 18 Aldabra rails, the last flightless bird in the Indian Ocean, returned to Picard Island after cats were gone. By 2012, nearly 3,000 lived there.

After cats wiped out flightless rails on Aldabra’s Picard Island, 18 birds were returned in 1999; by 2012, nearly 3,000 lived there

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