07-23-2018, 04:35 PM
This seems relevant:
"Eventually three-quarters of the versatile finches disappeared, most dramatically because Polynesian kings feathered their robes of office so lavishly. That old terminator habitat destruction, set in motion by the farming methods of Polynesian and Europeans alike, also added to the death toll. So did the introduction of non-native species that competed for resources with, and sometimes preyed on, indigenous birds. The record of many of these birds remains only in a collection of thousands of bones painstakingly reconstructed by Olson and James, then given the appearance of life in artist Hume’s portraits."
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Not sure who these folks are but I bet they know a thing or two. They think the making of feather cloaks caused extinction of birds.
"Eventually three-quarters of the versatile finches disappeared, most dramatically because Polynesian kings feathered their robes of office so lavishly. That old terminator habitat destruction, set in motion by the farming methods of Polynesian and Europeans alike, also added to the death toll. So did the introduction of non-native species that competed for resources with, and sometimes preyed on, indigenous birds. The record of many of these birds remains only in a collection of thousands of bones painstakingly reconstructed by Olson and James, then given the appearance of life in artist Hume’s portraits."
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n...UAfbXfJ.99
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Not sure who these folks are but I bet they know a thing or two. They think the making of feather cloaks caused extinction of birds.