Goats Hunting Parrots Raised 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
Broad-billed Parrot. Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Passenger Pigeon. Alaotra Grebe. Saint Helena Cuckoo. Grand Cayman Thrush.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean.
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