Invasive European Rabbit Cause Havoc In The Ecosystem
The Miami Herald2012-08-09: DESTRUCTION ISLAND, Wash. — Peter Hodum crouched high above the crashing surf and jammed his arm into a tunnel of dirt. An infrared camera was strapped to his face, and his right hand held the cordlike lens, which he snaked through a long earthen bunker that had been dug by a bird. The biologist and his colleague, scientist Scott Pearson, had come to this steep uninhabited pile of rocks to catalog the decline of the rhinoceros auklet, a gray seabird that nests deep in hollowed-out hillside burrows. But instead of spying one of the… more »