Another reason is Biological Magnification (i.e., chemical toxins travel from the lowest chain species in the ecological pyramids to top of the chain).This, in turn, alters the hormonal balance in the birds and results in weak eggs which cannot survive too long. The concentrated pesticides on the field get stuck on the grains birds consume. Pesticides play a major destructive role in birds’ population.Bycatch of marine birds in fisheries occurs regularly when birds such as albatrosses and petrels inadvertently get tangled in gill and trawl nets, causing them to lose their lives.Birds starve for food due to the shortage of food resources, or other bird species compete for the same food resources in the ecosystems.The introduction of non-native species (examples: rats, snakes) to the environment also disturbs the birds’ population since these animals make the birds nesting on the trees and ground very unsafe to hatch or raise the off-springs. One main reason birds go extinct is hunting and poaching.The first reason is Habitat loss due to human-made urban development activities (i.e., deforestation, industrialization, etc.), natural catastrophes, cell phone towers with amplified frequencies more than recommended levels, and climate change.Reasons Why Birds Are Becoming Extinct?īirds are becoming endangered or even extinct for an array of reasons:.Kangaroo Island Emu (†Dromaius baudinianus) Saint Helena Dove (†Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos) Marianne White Eye (†Zosterops semiflavus) Mauritius Blue Pigeon (†Alectroenas nitidissimus) Chatham island Penguin (†Eudyptes chathamensis) Labrador Duck (†Camptorhynchus labradorius) New Zealand Quail (†Coturnix novaezelandiae) Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (†Campephilus principalis) Stephen’s island Wren († Traversia lyalli) Passenger Pigeon (†Ectopistes migratorius) Carolina Parakeet (†Conuropsis carolinensis) She’s the last Dodo bird.ĭarwin talks The Pirate Captain into sailing to Britain, under the nose of pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Staunton), where Darwin hopes to present the bird to The Royal Society, whose entryway is marked “Playing God since 1807. And Darwin recognizes the Captain’s pet “parrot” as something altogether more amazing. There’s always a Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek), Peg Leg Hastings (Lenny Henry) or Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) to beat him to the podium.Īnd so it appears it will be in the 1837 awards, until he captures Charles Darwin (David Tennant), a scientist who craves fame as much as The Pirate Captain. But he’s always come up short in the booty and pillaging department. He figures he’s due for the Pirate of the Year award. Hugh Grant’s Pirate Captain (that’s his name) is all Hugh Grant stutter and “glittering eyes and glorious beard.” As a pirate, he’s something of a bust, even though his crew adores him. “Pirates” is the first Aardman film to suffer a serious shortage of sight gags, the first where the whimsy feels forced and the strain shows. The folks at Aardman, those meticulous Brits who build clay models and painstakingly animate them into Wallace & Gromit cartoons and the hit “Chicken Run,” tip their hand that way with “The Pirates! Band of Misfits.” A pirate picture that’s entirely too late to the party to have much in the line of fresh pirate gags, it is stuffed with name voice actors, from Hugh Grant as The Pirate Captain to Salma Hayek, Brendan Gleeson, Imelda Staunton, Anton Yelchin and Jeremy Piven.Īnd all of them sat in a recording booth and struggled to find funny things to say or funny ways to say the not-so-funny things in the script. There’s an inviolable law of animated films – the more “names” you have in the voice cast, the weaker you know your film is.
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