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. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2011
It was long expected that the fossil record would show extinct members of the genus in the islands between New Zealand/New Caledonia and the Society Islands (places like Tonga, Fiji, the Cook Islands) that had gone extinct before Europeans arrived, but no such fossils have been found.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In 2001, Trevor Worthy described a set of bones from Fiji as a new species of very large, flightless pigeon: the Viti Levu Giant Pigeon ( Natunaornis gigoura ). In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G.
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