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Dappled sun (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

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Cover art for Wildlife in North Carolina, July 1974. Illustration by Jay Johnson.

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My EXTINCTION STORIES solo show is now open at the Mable House Arts Center in Mableton, GA (NW metro Atlanta)!

Inside, you will find haunting visual narratives inspired by the irreplaceable species that humanity has squandered and lost, from the faraway thylacine to the once-familiar passenger pigeon.

Included are nearly 30 of my original works, many of which are being shown here publicly for the first time ever—I even painted three new birds especially for this show!

The exhibition has free admission, and runs until May 15th—so don’t miss your chance to see it before it goes extinct! 🦤

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I’d like to remind everyone that a photo of a nestling Kaua’i ō’ō exist and should give a BIG thank you to John Sincock who also has an unpublished paper about the ō’ō and his trips to Alaka’i swamp. This is the only known photograph of a nestling ō’ō. You can find this photo on the birds of the world website (linked in citation)

Sykes Jr., P. W., A. K. Kepler, C. B. Kepler, and J. M. Scott (2020). Kauai Oo (Moho braccatus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.kauoo.01

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

I hope the rest of his photos are out there somewhere. I was super lucky to be able to find his unpublished paper as well as some memos (shout out to Daniel Lewis who was able to send me the memos AND wrote about sincock and the ō’ō in his book Belonging on an Island : Birds, Extinction and Evolution in Hawai’i)

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Baiji, or: the Yangtze River Dolphin.

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leave everything always unbroken

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You may be gone but I won't forget you

(based on the taxidermied specimen displayed at the Copenhagen museum of natural history)

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Day 123#: Guam Flycatcher

Today's animal of the day is the Guam Flycatcher (Myiagra freycineti)!

Photo credit: Anne F. Maben

Also known as the Guam broadbill or as the chuguangguang, this small species of bird could once be found throughout the forests of Guam but is now extinct. These birds were only about 5 inches long and were a glossy bluish-black for the males, while the females were a brownish-gray color. Both sexes had buff and white colored breasts and whisker-like feathers near their beak, which helped them to locate prey. Like other species of flycatchers, their diet mostly consisted of flying insects, which they often captured mid-flight! The main cause for their extinction was the accidental introduction of the brown tree snake to the island of Guam by humans in the 1940s.

Photo credit: Anne F. Maben

These snakes absolutely decimated the flycatchers, causing their population to decline at a rapid rate. The last confirmed sighting of the Guam flycatcher took place in Santa Rosa in the year 1983. Today, the brown tree snake is still causing major issues for many of the bird species native to Guam and other nearby islands, such as the Guam kingfisher and the golden white-eye. Luckily, there are still a handful of small islands that lack these invasive snakes and have become a sanctuary for these birds and many other species. However, if we want to prevent them from suffering the same fate as the Guam flycatcher, then we need to help ensure that these places remain protected and predator-free, as well as help remove the pre-existing colonies of invasive snakes so these birds can one day return to their former homes.

Photo credit: Guam Department of Wildlife Resources

It's important to note that many conservationists believe that the Guam flycatcher and many other species could have been saved if they had received proper funding and support from the government to help create a species survival plan. This isn't just a problem of the past; there are countless species around today on the brink of extinction that could be saved, but our government is choosing to either ignore them or actively strip them of what little protections they have just to make a quick buck.