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#26 Endemic to it's namesake island in the South Pacific, New Caledonian owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles savesi) has declined through predation by introduced #cats, 🐀, & habitat loss through fire, mining and logging. <50 #birds possibly left.
https://t.co/JogKV0gmAp
7. Bonin grosbeak (Carpodacus ferreorostris); known only from specimens collected in 1827 and 1828 from Bonin islands off of Japan. The site was perfect for whalers, who introduced #cats & other #InvasiveSpecies
#ornithology #cats #extinctioncrisis
Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor), an endemic pigeon on Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan.
#ornithology
#ExtinctionCrisis
#BiodiversityCrisis