Hurricane Dorian may have made a species of bird go extinct

Hurricane Dorian is not only a catastrophe for the people living on the islands in the Bahamas battered by the record-breaking storm. It may also have killed the last few individuals of a bird called the Bahama nuthatch, meaning this species is now extinct. Several other bird species could also have been lost.

“Dorian is of course a humanitarian disaster,” says conservation biologist Diana Bell at the University of East Anglia. “It is also likely to be an ecological disaster.”

Last year members of her team carried out…