Ecotasia's video: Dead as the Dodo: How Humans Cause Bird Extinctions

This video is made in collaboration with BioBush Invasive Species: The introduction of mammals to many oceanic islands has resulted in the extinction of hundreds flightless bird extinctions. On the island of Mauritius, the dodo was wiped out when monkeys and pigs arrived on its refuge, brought by Dutch colonists. It was a similar story for the Moa-nalo and Sylviornis. In New Zealand, the Stephens Island Wren disappeared when a few cats where set free because of construction on a lighthouse. The strange Kakapo though clung on. Habitat Destruction: The Huia and Carolina Parakeet lost their habitat to logging, which made them suseptable to other threats like hunting. Today, tropical deforestation will lead to another wave of avian extinctions. Overhunting: The Great Auk was hunted from the North Atlantic to fill pillows and collections, while billions of Passenger Pigeons where slaughtered. Sources Roberts, D. L.; Solow, A. R. (November 2003). "Flightless birds: When did the dodo become extinct?". Nature. 426 (6964): 245. Bibcode:2003Natur.426..245R. doi:10.1038/426245a. PMID 14628039. Fryer, J. (14 September 2002). "Bringing the dodo back to life". BBC News. London. Retrieved 7 September 2006. Southey, I. (2013). Miskelly, C. M. (ed.). "Lyall's Wren". New Zealand Birds Online. Retrieved 1 June 2016. Galbreath, R. & Brown, D. (2004) The tale of the lighthouse-keeper's cat: Discovery and extinction of the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli). Notornis, 51( ): 193–200. http://notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_51_4_193.pdf Moorhouse, Ron J (1996). "The extraordinary bill dimorphism of the Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris): sexual selection or intersexual competition?" (PDF fulltext). Notornis. 43 (1): 19–34. Retrieved 16 January 2013. Higgins, Peter Jeffrey; Peter, John M; Cowling, SJ, eds. (2006). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 7: Boatbill to Starlings, Part A: Boatbill to Larks. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553996-7. "Huia". The Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Extinct Species of Modern Times. 1. Osprey, Florida: Beacham Publishing. 1997. pp. 63–65. ISBN 978-0-933833-40-1 Morris, Rod; Smith, Hal (1995). Wild South: Saving New Zealand's Endangered Birds (2nd ed.). New Zealand: Random House. ISBN 978-1-86941-043-8. Phillips, Kristin Elise. "Plumes of Poison". Audubon Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2015. "The last Carolina Parakeet". 22 December 2015. Sharpe, M. (2012, March 27). Precious feathers of extinct huia stolen. Retrieved November 5, 2019, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/editors-picks/6641543/Precious-feathers-of-extinct-huia-stolen. Fuller, Errol (1999). The Great Auk. Southborough, Kent, UK: Privately Published. ISBN 0-9533553-0-6 Fuller, Errol (2003). The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin. Bunker Hill Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-59373-003-1. Crofford, Emily (1989). Gone Forever: The Great Auk. New York: Crestwood House. ISBN 0-89686-459-6. Blockstein, D. E. (2002). "Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius". In Poole, A.; Gill, F. (eds.). The Birds of North America. Philadelphia: The Birds of North America, Inc., Cornell Lab of Ornithology. p. 611. Retrieved March 3, 2016. Schorger, A. W. (1955). The Passenger Pigeon: Its Natural History and Extinction. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-1-930665-96-5. Music Decline by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300016 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Dreams Become Real by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500027 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Clouds by Humma-Humma With the Sea by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4638-with-the-sea) Artist: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ Autumn Sunset by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Contains Original Footage, Artwork and Sound, with appropriated Public Domain video If you like animals and nature Please Subscribe and Like Underwater Worlds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAJNusnxcNoHUx_sNDYT92k Journey through the Undergrowth (Macro footage of insects and Arachnids) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZC-4h2hpK09I-FF563TQzlc Bird Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqNM9k7OoY&list=PLYx5OP7sbAZACa11LD1wDQhn0SI2-SV1f Birding Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAYjq78IuGJI4wc0GXDRHTd Conservation Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAIUm5UCl84q2KU2nI3YLpx