GC48TX3 Extinct Animal: Canarian Black Oystercatcher
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: poolsharkycat @ | Hide Date: 03/31/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 29.632 W104° 03.435 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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The Canarian Black Oystercatcher, more popular as the Canary Islands Oystercatcher, was a shorebird found on the Canary Islands in Spain. The bird disappeared from its natural habitat in the beginning of the 20th century. It is assumed that the disturbance by the local people and predation by rats were the prominent reasons for the extinction of Canarian Black Oystercatcher. Some theories also suggested that loss of habitat was responsible for the extinction. According to the local fishermen and the lighthouse keepers, the last sighting of this species happened in 1940s. After several attempts to find this bird failed, finally it was declared extinct through IUCN Red List for 1994.

06/29/2019 By mcmwest


Caching in the Agate area today with my partner mcmm1. Signing logs as mcm or team mcm . Thanks to the catchers who placed these here and those who have helped keep them up.

06/29/2019 By mcmm1
Out caching Colorado this weekend.

05/27/2019 By EJBHGV
Out caching on Memorial Day near Deer Trail.
Mostly Extinct animals and Days in October.
Thanks to al CO's for making the game possible.

10/26/2018 By AirDrone
Running a run on the High Plains... this on great lonely road TFTC missing log - replaced with new one for CO

05/07/2018 By reforestgrrl
Fun day of caching with my best geocaching pal. TFTH

05/07/2018 By Cache Dipper
Quickie Thanks

04/27/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

10/13/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying another day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers and others in between along the power trails!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Most were in good shape in these sections however i did replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

08/26/2017 By lasouthpaw
Thought I saw a wasp / wasp nest above GZ and it completely freaked me out. Still managed to grab the container and sign the log. TFTC - #1732

I had a much needed geocaching adventure today. I drove over from Denver to Goodland (KS) last night. Got up this morning and continued east to Mingo. Wound up caching my way there and then back towards Denver, ending with a power trail-ish run between Limon and Deer Trail. Got to see lots of sunflowers and even some antelope along the way. Cachly was acting funny, I'm pretty sure it wasn't bringing up all the caches, but oh well. Wound up caching until the sun went down. Now for all those logs…