About cicadas

Yes, even right now, but to whom?? I would be very happy to do it.

Off-top, of course - the Internet seems to write that the blame was assigned to cats of the Victorian era. Just wondering

R. L. Potapov's report "A unique exhibit (Macquarie parrot) on display at the ZIN RAS Museum" was presented at the reporting session in ZIN yesterday. Parrots were collected by the Bellingshausen and Lazarev expedition and one of the specimens was found in the window of the museum's exhibition collection, with an incorrect identification label. The specimen is unique, because the parrots themselves are extinct and very few materials have survived to this day. The report just stated that the parrots were finished off just by a cowherd boy. This shepherd boy is a flightless bird, about the size of a small chicken. By the time of Bellingshausen and Lazarev's expedition, Macquarie Island was already home to many cats and dogs, as well as parrots. And soon after the introduction of the Ueki shepherdess, with the good purpose of resettling the endangered bird, the parrots quickly disappeared. It is believed that these shepherds in the mass ate ground nests and chicks of parrots. I'm not an ornithologist, so I told you what I heard in the report.

Another funny thing, according to Potapov, in Western literature, the Bellingshausen and Lazarev expedition is often accused of importing these notorious cats and dogs! Despite the fact that the diary of the expedition noted a large number of feral pets. Also in the diary, it is scrupulously recorded that Officer N's dog escaped, apparently the dog missed its brothers of the opposite sex very much during the voyage (this is my addition). In a word, these Russians are again to blame for everything!