How my Bird and Hawaii’s extinct birds compare

Hawaii has a devastating history of birds going extinct.  Most of Hawaii’s birds that have gone extinct was due to first the colonization of the Polynesians and then by the colonization of Europeans.  Much of the bird loss happened from people hunting the birds, habitat destruction, diseases, introduction of new species, and competition for food.  The Eastern Loggerhead Shrike is endangered and many fear that it will soon go extinct if nothing is done soon to help this bird repopulate.  Many people have a theory to way this bird, in Quebec, might be going extinct and it involves the disturbance of critical habitat, head-on collisions with cars (because they are low flying birds), diseases like West Nile Virus, rise of predators, the weather change that seems to be happening, and pesticides may also be a factor.
There are some similarities that I found, in my research, that these birds have in common and they are the disturbances of their critical habitats and diseases like the West Nile Virus.  The sad thing about their commonalities is that these factors can be stopped by us humans.  The easy way to help the spread of the West Nile Virus is to drain all water from things that collect water in our backyards and/or any other object that might collect unintentional water.  This will keep the number of mosquitoes down.  The way that we can help save the critical habitat that these bird live in is have businesses reuse buildings that are not in use any more and have more locations where these birds exist protected, which only requires sending a letter with signatures of people that share the same thought as you.  Many people are award of birds going extinct or birds that are listed as endangered or threaten and say someone needs to do something about it, but what many people don’t realize there is something that YOU can do and it sometimes doesn’t involve much hard work. : )       




Extincted Hawaiian Birds
Great website on Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes
Law passed in the U.S.A.