In the 1980s, Guam’s kingfisher vanished from the wild after invasive snakes devastated the island’s birds: The last 29 were rescued and four new chicks are now helping rebuild the species |
The Guam Kingfisher is known as the “sihek” in Chamorro, the native language of the Marianas Archipelago and is the rarest species at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The bird is classified by the IUCN as extinct in the wild, meaning a single one is not present outside the conservation centre….
