The Bahama nuthatch may now be extinct UEA School of Biological Sciences
Hurricane Dorian is not only a catastrophe for the people living on the islands in the Bahamas battered by the record-breaking storm. It may also have killed the last few individuals of a bird called the Bahama nuthatch, meaning this species is now extinct. Several other bird species could also have been lost.
Dorian is of course a humanitarian disaster, says conservation biologist Diana Bell at the University of East Anglia. It is also likely to be an ecological disaster.
Last year members of her team carried out…
