What bird was driven to extinction by the millitary?

Question

My father and I were talking about the song "Dodo / Lurker" by Genesis (I know, strange song, eh?), and he started saying that the Dodo was driven to extinction because it blocked millitary runways and the millitary, in turn, eraticated it.

But, the Dodo has been extinct since the 1700s, and no powered aircraft flew until 1903.

So my question is, what bird was extincted by the millitary, what millitary was it (I'm assuming United States Air Force), and what happened?

Answer 1

The dodo was made extinct by the colonisers of Mauritius. They brought dogs, pigs and other animals that destroyed the dodos' nests on the ground. Additionally the colonisers cut down a lot of the forest that the dodo used to frequent for nesting.

I'm not sure any animal or bird was made extinct by military action or the action of the Defense Department

Answer 2

The Mariana Mallard declined due to draining of wetlands for agriculture and construction. Hunting pressure was probably heavy, despite a ban on gun ownership under Japanese control (1914-1945), as the birds were unwary to be trapped, and at any rate the gun ban was lifted after World War II. By the 1940s, flocks of more than a dozen birds were seldom seen. On Guam, the last sightings were in 1949 and 1967 - the latter being a single, possibly vagrant, bird - and on Tinian in 1974. As Lake Susupe offered the most plentiful and least accessible habitat, although it too suffered from pollution by sugar mill wastes, the Saipan population lingered on for a few more years. The Mariana Mallard was listed as federally endangered on June 2, 1977 (United States Government, 1977). In 1979, two males and a female were found on Saipan and caught; one male was later released, the last wild bird ever to be encountered. The pair was brought to Pohakuloa, Hawai‘i, and later to SeaWorld, San Diego, where it was attempted to have them reproduce in captivity. However, this was unsuccessful and the species became extinct with the death of the last individual in 1981. Surveys were conducted in the following years, but the species was certainly gone by then. It was removed from the USFWS Endangered Species List on February 23, 2004, due to extinction (United States Government, 2004).Collection of specimens for museums and private collections must have had a temporary impact during the Japanese control over the islands. Although less than 100 specimens are on record, most were taken in the 1930s and 1940s for Japanese collectors; given the rather sedentary habits and small population size of the species, this may have jeopardized local populations to the point of extinction. Outside Japan, 7 specimens (including the type) are in the MNHN, Paris, one in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, two in the USNM, Washington D.C. and six in the AMNH, New York City (FWIE-VTU, 1996). Greenway (1967) mentions additional specimens in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Lisbon.

Answer 3

They had a problem on some Pacific island with some gooneys or boobies , not sure which one. They are big and clumsy and kept walking on the runway. They didn't eradicate them just tried too.

Answer 4

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