"I know how you were impressed by the stuffed eskimo curlew or, er, northern curlew, lol. But this here site is full of stuffed extinct beasts, some pictures I havent seen before".
http://www.taxidermy4cash.com/countdown.html
And you know what? She is absolutely right. The people who own the site have disabled the function by which we can steal photographs for the blog, and although we can still do it by other means, after they have expressly asked us not to, it does not seem ethical so you had better check it out for yourselves....
That's an excellent site. It's a compendium of man's brutality to a host of host species.
ReplyDeleteThe Northern or Eskimo Curlew was called the "Prairie Pigeon" because they were as numerous as the Passenger Pigeons back East. There have been sightings in Canada in this decade, but these have not been confirmed.
As for the Carolina parakeet, it's gone, despite the April Fools joke I received on that one. We do have introduced populations of psittacine, most of which are in California or the really warm parts of the South.
The thick-billed parrot was reintroduced in the 1980's to Arizona, but the birds were quickly eaten by predators.
It is possible that the red-headed Amazons that are sometimes seen in Texas are actually native birds, because the range of that species extends into adjacent parts of Mexico.