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Image: Camptorhynchus labradorius (Labrador duck) (8365390008)

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Description: Camptorhynchus labradorius Gmelin, 1789 - Labrador duck (replica) (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA).

The never-common Labrador duck is an extinct species of North American Eastern Seaboard sea duck. Not surprisingly, its late 1800s extinction was due to human activity.
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