Vampire finches and deadly tree snakes: how birds went worldwide – and their battles for survival

A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London includes ‘tragic’ tales of species wiped out from their natural habitatsDouglas Russell, a senior curator at London’s Natural History Museum, was examining a collection of nests gathered on the island of Guam when he made an unsettling discovery.“The nests had been picked up more than 100 years ago, and I was curating them with the aim of adding them to the museum’s main collection. They turned out to be one o