Episode 1: The Saddest Checklist In The World
On August 29th 1978, Don Roberson drove in a rental car up to a scrubby limestone forest on the North end of Guam. Using a hand-made guidebook he’d drawn himself with coloured pencils, Don managed to find and identify two of Guam’s rare endemic birds: The Guam Rail and the Guam Flycatcher.
He didn’t know it at the time, but both of those birds would go extinct in the next five years.
In this episode, I talk to Don about that day in Guam, to find out what it was like to catch a last glimpse of a bird that no longer exists.
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