10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
To try to manage the invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam, which has forced many of Guam’s bird species to extinction and as a way to try to keep the snakes from Hawaii. This article is fascinating.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Back in 2009, Tai Haku sent us a fascinating post exploring a question that ecologists worldwide grapple with: can the translocation of rare species into niches left empty by extinction be successful or justified? Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. .
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Guam Flycatcher. The eight species above still exist. And if we continue to do nothing more and more species will continue to blink out. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an uncountable number of awful things) is that war’s direct role in the extinction of two species of rail. The loss of these two species was, in fact, no aberration, except in how late the extinctions were.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. We have so altered the earth – pumping pollution, moving species around, destroying ecosystems – that many species, dependent upon ecological niches or simply unprepared for an onslaught of unfamiliar organisms with which they did not evolve, have no chance.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. Taking risks with any of these removals of “alien” species renders the whole operation pointless…it only takes two (2) to start the cycle all over again. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
The USVI are smaller and have fewer habitats and, as a result, fewer bird species. territories are Guam (pop. Puerto Rico has a checklist of 269 species, 207 of which are migratory and the USVI has a checklist of 149 species, 124 of which are migratory. Postal Service. The only other populated U.S.
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