Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Horses bolted. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest.
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