October 03, 2017 Pests-be-gone October 03, 2017/ Abby McBride Maria Island, site of the world’s first island-wide eradication of invasive rodents (in the 1960s). We couldn’t land the boat on the rocks, so I swam over to take a look. Those hills are covered with seabird burrows! A post shared by Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) on Oct 2, 2017 at 5:54pm PDT I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.