10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Mauritius Owl. And it is a rate of extinction that is speeding up! Black-fronted Parakeet. Pagan Reed Warbler.

Mauritius 171

Mauritius Djibouti Guam Goats 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean.

Marsupials 164

Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 164

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This fish hunting duck ranges from the northern tip of New Zealand to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands (after which it was first named) but is common nowhere. Everyone wants to pick off the most fiercesome night predator here, the Laughing Owl , but we’ll also be out looking for the New Zealand Owlet-nightjar. Laughing Owl.

New Zealand 192

New Zealand Ducks Mountain Goats Australia 192