Cyanoramphus zealandicus
1850
Photograph of a baiji killed in 1914 by the American naturalist Charles Hoy -- Source
Cyanoramphus zealandicus
1850
Photograph of a baiji killed in 1914 by the American naturalist Charles Hoy -- Source
Endemic to Tahiti, the black-fronted parakeet was discovered by Europeans during James Cook's first voyage in 1769 --- when the specimens held in Liverpool and at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring may have been collected. A woodland species with striking violet-blue flight feathers and vibrant red lores, the parakeet survived deforestation, harvesting by Tahitians for handicrafts, and predation by pigs and kiore (Rattus exulans). With the introduction of cats and European rats to Tahiti, the black-fronted parakeet quickly became extinct as these creatures preyed on the birds and their nests, with the last reported sighting in 1850.
Bos primigenius
1627
Illustration of an aurochs from Siegmund von Herberstein's Rervm Moscoviticarvm commentarij Sigismundi (1556) Source
Endemic to Tahiti, the black-fronted parakeet was discovered by Europeans during James Cook's first voyage in 1769 --- when the specimens held in Liverpool and at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring may have been collected. A woodland species with striking violet-blue flight feathers and vibrant red lores, the parakeet survived deforestation, harvesting by Tahitians for handicrafts, and predation by pigs and kiore (Rattus exulans). With the introduction of cats and European rats to Tahiti, the black-fronted parakeet quickly became extinct as these creatures preyed on the birds and their nests, with the last reported sighting in 1850.
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