article thumbnail

Jinx Warbler Vanquished

10,000 Birds

I’ve rushed to spring reports of these birds in Columbus, Ohio’s Greenlawn Cemetery. It had become a joke among my birding pals here in Ohio, especially within the friendly confines of The Ohio Ornithological Society. Julie has seen or heard several on our farm here in southeast Ohio! But not me.

article thumbnail

Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

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. We know what those large flocks were like.

Mauritius 103