Ode to the Stephen's Island Wren, or the Trouble with Tibbles

There once was a cat named Tibbles,
Who went to New Zealand for Kibbles.
  The birds couldn't fly
  So they all had to die.
And now she's in space hunting Tribbles.

- Amanda Bouquet, 2023. In 1894 or so. It came to the attention of scientists that a single cat may have destroyed and an entire species of flightless birds. Experts differ on whether Tibbles had other feline accomplices, but the Stephen's Island Wren is no more.