North America's only parrot- EXTINCT

[_Cass_]

While this may be true (I don't know for sure, was just going off of what I've read), the bottom line is, they're not supposed to be there. Our carelessness causes disastrous invasive species all the time (can anyone say Cane Toad, Burmese Python, or Africanized Honey Bees?). There are seriously hundreds of invasive species that DO cause harm, that I don't blame people for being cautious.

Its still exremely horrible how they kill them. Cut down the nests and exterminate. Thats not cautious, thats cruel.

 

[Birdamor]

Yes, you are correct, there are lots and lots of introduced species that have caused a lot of harm to the native ones but, in reality, A LOT of species in US are not native: dogs, cats, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, goats, starlings, pigeons, rats, bees (not only the Africanized but the 'regular' honey bees) and the list goes on and on. Just because a species is non-native, it doesn't mean it's invasive.

 

[GreenCheek]

Ok, I see what you're saying. European honey bees I didn't even think of. You just get so used to seeing them, you forget that they were introduced.

If anything, I think cats cause more harm than any other species! Just think, all the native wild birds they kill... I hate that people can't keep their cats indoors. And Starlings, ugh. We finally resolved the issue, but for years we had starlings making nests in our ceiling, and the chicks kept making it into our house (through our central AC/furnace area), along with adult starlings! Talk about scary, try having an adult, wild starling flying around your home! It was horrible, everything we were doing wouldn't discourage them from nesting up there, until we finally got this foam stuff that sealed up the hole.