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Delalande’s Coucal

He was from Madagascar. He was also known as a Snail-eating Coucal. He liked eating land snails, as his name implies. It only was known to science as a living bird for a very short time in the 19th century. Life got difficult quickly: its habitat was destroyed by deforestation, it had to compete for food with non-native invasive black rats, and it was…