Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things. Featured image is a Guam Rail, a Pacific species of rail extinct in the wild. They rise, only to fall beneath the waves again. Image by Greg Hume, CC.
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