Let me refresh my memory Checked. I stand corrected. It was a few months, not two years and the seabird was not an endangered species globally (but can be loca

Let me refresh my memory Checked. I stand corrected. It was a few months, not two years and the seabird was not an endangered species globally (but can be locally). It happened in the National park of Timanfaya almost twenty years ago. At the end of June-2003, a trail of depredated corpses of Scopoli's shearwaters started to appear. The area is dry and the invisible predator left no traces and almost no faeces to examine. The National Park staff suspected a ferret as main candidate. Dogs, cats or even badgers were also in the list, some camera traps were set and eventually show a racoon. Until caught at the end of the summer, the final "bodycount" was 100 shearwaters killed (plus the orphaned chicks unable to survive without the parents). This just by one single racoon in a single summer. The animal was tame, not afraid of people and was clearly a released pet. If it hadn't happened in a national park no one would have bothered to hunt it. I only found a link in Spanish, you can use google translate if you are curious about the details. https://www.abc.es/espana/canarias/abci-capturado-mapache-causado-muerte-cien-pardelas-timanfaya-200310150300-214072_noticia.html https://www.abc.es/espana/canarias/abci-capturado-mapache-ca...