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 & other

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Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor), an endemic pigeon on Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan.


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102 years ago today, Incas the last Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) died in Cincinnati zoo. The same zoo (and perhaps same aviary) that held Martha the last passenger pigeon, just 4 years earlier. https://t.co/wQGuSuQD56 Image by Audubon.

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