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Recent Examples of courserIndia is the only country with more than one bird on the list, with the Himalayan quail, last sighted in 1877, and the Jerdon's courser, which was witnessed much more recently in 2009.—
Jeevan Ravindran,
CNN,
19 Dec. 2021 This West African sighthound makes a fiercely protective companion and guardian, and an extremely intelligent lure courser.—
The Editors,
Outside Online,
23 Oct. 2012
Historian Casey Pallister argues that the brief but intense era of the bone hunters, those who scoured the land for the bones, should be better known.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
20 July 2026
Now, over a year after the film’s premiere, the demand for merchandise is finally being fulfilled with the pending release of dolls of singers/demon hunters Rumi, Mira and Zoey from Mattel, role-playing toys from Hasbro and Funko Pops!
The show follows the titular Shaun, who lives on a quiet British farm with his flock and is constantly trying to add excitement to their quaint lifestyles, often causing trouble for their farmer and the sheepdog Bitzer.
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Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
How do sheepdogs successfully steer small groups of erratic sheep?
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Rohini Subrahmanyam,
Scientific American,
11 June 2026