The Wright's skink, a lizard native to the Seychelles, likes to dine on magpie robins' eggs and chicks. By 1970, 16 Seychelles magpie robins remained on Earth, all on Frégate. The species had ...
It is no wonder then that when week-old magpie chick George blew into her life after a storm tossed his nest at a time when her own life was falling apart, Hughes welcomed the distraction that his ...