[Tweeters] “On his first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492, Christopher Columbus noted that flocks of parrots were so abundant they "obscured the sun." Today, more than half of parrot species in the Caribbean have gone extinct, from large particolored macaws to a parrotlet the size of a sparrow.” Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction | ScienceDaily

[Dan Reiff]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230925153825.htm


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