10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. There were potentially up to ten or more species of macaw in the West Indies, scattered on most of the major islands from Cuba in the west to Martinique in the east. … Birds Cuba Extinction Week parrots'

Cuba 258

Cuba Columbus Parrots DC 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It’s not known for sure whether the entirety of the population of the species always wintered on the island of Cuba but by the time people cared enough to find out that’s where they were going. By about 1940, reports began to come saddled with the depressing qualification “last certain” From Cuba in 1940.

South Carolina 196

South Carolina Cuba Missouri Mississippi 196

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s. Most of the chapters are in the first two sections; the future is a brief, open question.

Michigan 257

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 257