Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
They often become slower breeders, and most importantly, they lose their ability to disperse, meaning they get stranded on the island they live on. Outside the truly ancient islands that are fragments of sunken continents; New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and the like, the Islands of the Pacific are, geologically, ephemeral things.
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