Our beautiful earth has a billion-year history of life evolution, from the barren land to the white frozen planet, and then to this beautiful and moving blue planet, which has been conceived for hundreds of millions of years, gave birth to countless life species, and experienced five major life extinctions during the period.
Recently, relevant scientists have found through a large number of research cases that in the modern past hundred years, the extinction rate of earth's organisms has accelerated by nearly 100 times, especially in the fifty years of rapid economic development, the average daily extinction of 72 species of organisms on the earth, three extinctions per hour, equivalent to the extinction of one life every twenty-five minutes, and there may be a life extinction in the short time we eat.
Today, let's take a look at some of the adorable birds that have flown in the sky and disappeared in the last hundred years!
1. Giant flamingos
Mauritian flamingos, much larger than those we see today, are tall, have a particularly long neck, the size of a red-crowned crane, are white all over, have red feathers under their wings, have a sharp and powerful beak, and have slender legs, but after the Europeans landed, the Mauritian flamingos, like several other Mauritian birds, were hunted and killed.
2. Tricolor macaw
Cuba's unique macaw, which was extremely rare after 1886, gradually disappeared from human vision in the following decades, mainly because the sugarcane agriculture promoted by the United States in Cuba, after crushing the Cuban economy, at the same time lost the land of the poor, forced to reclaim barren mountains, burned the forest, macaw lost its habitat, and did not receive corresponding protection, extinction is silent.
3. Roddy Joan Bird
Distributed in Rodriguez and its nearby islands, white feathers, black wings and tail, individuals are larger than crows, and the reason for extinction is to feed on small insects.
4. Reunion blue purple water chicken
The blue-purple feathers were so gorgeous that Europeans were ecstatic when they discovered the island, and the island's many beautiful birds became a hunt and then sold to Europe, spending the rest of their lives in the gardens of the nobility and in the zoo, and no one paid attention to their extinction, just blindly plundered. It was extinct by the end of the 18th century.
5. Fiji spot-winged buzzard
Once Fiji's buzzards throughout the country, the rapid development of agricultural technology and the extensive application of pesticides made them extinct in just a decade, officially declared extinct in 1973.
6. Maslin white bone top
The white head feathers got their name as an embellishment, and the whole body feathers were black, and in 1693 they became extinct in hunting activities and the introduction of cats.
7. Mauritian red buzzard
Mauritius is another beautiful bird that was hunted by Europeans and invaded by cats they carried.
8. Great auk
This clumsy bird, large in size, docile temperament, was found by European sailors, eating fish food sailors ecstatic, have killed, because the food storage technology at that time was not developed, fresh chicken and so on can not be carried for ocean voyage, the discovery of the great auk after the great satisfaction of the sailor's taste buds, at first, hunting some of their own food, and later found that can be farmed on the ship as a meat reserve, the great auk began the nightmare of extinction, each time thousands of great auks were carried on the ship. It became extinct after 1825.
9. Guadalcanal Kara Eagle
The sharp-eyed eagle, which feeds mainly on the small birds of the island, has caused the extinction of the karahawk due to the destruction of the ecological environment, and the lack of food has caused the karahawk to become extinct.
10. Carolina Parrot
4 red, yellow and green parrots, kind words, beauty and intelligence, made it the favorite pet of the nobles, hunted in large numbers, so that they were kept in captivity in the gardens of the European nobility, and the feathers were decorated on the nobles' closets.
11, Ogasawara Hayashi
A pigeon unique to Japan, timid and cautious by nature, Japan developed its economy in the 18th century, Westernized, and cut down a large number of forests to build ships, resulting in the eventual loss of habitat and extinction.
12. Solomon's CrownEd Pigeon
The only crowned pigeon, larger, survived in the Americas, hunted in large numbers after the Arrival of the British, and carried cats and dogs and other animals attacked and extinct.
13. Mauritian blue pigeon
Europeans planted crops in large quantities after arriving, and treated the Mauritian blue pigeon as a rat-like pest bird, and when they realized the mistake, it was too late to protect.
14. Laughing Owl
Named after the snickering of a human psychopath, the laughing owl was forced to change its survival strategy due to the disruption of human activities and began to eat small animals such as ducks, and the shortage of food led to a sharp decline in numbers, and the last laughing owl was made into a specimen in 1914, and since then, the laughing owl has become extinct in New Zealand.
15. Fruit spotted dove
The green feathers, red belly, and extremely beautiful, which feed on jam, are heavily captured for making decorations. It is also extinct due to the destruction of habitats by human activities.
16. Colored pigeons
It lives in the Daxing'anling Forest and was extinct in the 1970s due to deforestation.
17. Passenger pigeons
Once the largest number of pigeons on earth, can be found everywhere on the American continent, billions of a group, and eventually extinct in the United States life is brilliant and colorful, under the shotgun of the Chinese, the last passenger pigeon was shot by a seven-year-old boy in Texas.
Love nature more, protect the environment, and coexist with all natural things.
The beautiful spirit has left us, the past has become a memory, we should take this as a wake-up call, and live in harmony with all things in nature.