If you turn up the volume for this video, you’ll hear the eerie mating call of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō. This particular call went unanswered, because it was apparently the last member of the species singing the last such song that we will ever hear. https://goo.gl/zu7MkJ pic.twitter.com/r3Z3SFA7Xv
Humans are believed to have played a significant part in the extinction, through introduction of animals inimical to the bird (such as rats, pigs and mosquitoes), as well as habitat destruction.
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They came to Kauai on ships built and commandeered by humans.
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