Birdfinding.info <\/em><\/strong>\u21d2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The Laysan Rail<\/strong> remained common on Laysan Island into the 1910s: estimates of 2,000 in 1912 and 5,000 in 1915 are considered reasonable.\u00a0 But European Hare introduced in 1903 eventually denuded the one-square-mile island of most of its vegetation.\u00a0 By 1923, a dedicated effort found only two rails remaining on Laysan.\u00a0 By that time, however, additional populations were well-established on Midway Atoll\u2019s Sand and Eastern Islands.\u00a0 These survived until the accidental introduction of rats to Midway in 1943. \u00a0The rail was last seen on Eastern Island in July 1944.\u00a0 Although vegetation had by then returned to Laysan Island, there was unfortunately no attempt to re-establish the rail in its original range.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t