Critically endangered bird is re-released on tiny Australian island after officials spend months wiping out ...
(World News Science)

This month, researchers on Lord Howe Island in Australia have reported that their plan to reintroduce a species of near extinct bird after what they described as the largest ever rodent eradication program on an island has been a success. The Lord Howe woodhen is a small flightless bird that had lived peaceably for thousands of years on the picturesque tourist island a little less than 400 miles northeast of Sydney. In the summer of 2019, the island`s woodhen populations were threatened by an explosion in the rodent population, which topped 360,000-more than 1,000 for every one of its 350 human residents. The Lord Howe woodhen were threatened with extinction for the second time last year,...