Guam Related Topics 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
To try to manage the invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam, which has forced many of Guam’s bird species to extinction and as a way to try to keep the snakes from Hawaii. This article is fascinating.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. . The Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni is, as most of you will know and the remainder will have guessed, native to Guam… in the South Pacific… a long, long way from Puerto Rico and the V.I.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2023
billion in PILT payments to 49 States (all but Rhode Island), the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. Since these payments began in 1977, the Department has distributed nearly $10.8 The amounts and other details can be found here, but the payments are larger for western states (which have far more federal land).
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
A classic example of what an invasive species is capable of resides on the island of Guam…when one species of snake made its way onto to the island via airplane, practically all of the island’s birds went extinct in a matter of a few decades.
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2008
And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
If something got rare we’d just tuck a preserve around it and keep it as a tourist attraction.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
Guam Flycatcher. They are all as dead as a Dodo but they don’t even have the dignity of being remembered. Olson’s Petrel. Viti Levu Scrubfowl. Maupiti Monarch. Kona Grosbeak. Ryukyu Woodpigeon. Mauritius Night-Heron. North Island Snipe. Eight more birds. Eight that I had never heard of. And, yeah, they’re all extinct too.
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