| Nightshade is spot on. The Hogs are introduced and are devastating the populations of any ground nesting birds.
There are times on these small islands where man sometimes has to make the decision to cull to balance out nature. By virtue of islands being small the top predator might not have a predator itself so the balance goes astray. One such island in question was Puffin Island near Anglesey which became totally overun with Rats to the detrement of the sea bird colonies there. A decision was made to eradicate the island of these rats and now thankfully the sea bird population is on the increase. |