Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Even before the islands sink into the ocean they will probably have been host to successive waves of extinction and colonisation, based on natural laws expounded as McArthur and Wilson’s Theory of Island Biogeography. Featured image is a Guam Rail, a Pacific species of rail extinct in the wild. Image by Greg Hume, CC.
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