Pattern of Bird Disappearance
•The pattern seems to be that the birds maintain good populations, and then suddenly disappear within a year
or so, along the extinction
front. 1950s
•Some suggestions of a reduction in the numbers of Forest
Birds in the mid-south
of the island. 1960s
•Extinction of Forest Birds in the south and center of
the island. 1970s
•Extinction of Forest Birds in much of the north. 1980s
•Extinction of Forest
Birds in the remainder of the north complete
by 1982.