extinction

About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck, a charming species related to the pochards (although how,…

Genyornis newtoni, weighted about 500 pounds and stood seven feet tall. It was a bird, and this is where the…

Extinction endures long past regret or even memory. We nature lovers, celebrants of life in all its exquisite multiformity, feel…

Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a…

The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. Not more than four years following the final breath…

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each offers…

I’ve decided to get into the bird tour business. I mean, how hard could it be? Get up early, point…

Passenger Pigeon. Kioea. Broad-billed Parrot. Alaotra Grebe. Saint Helena Cuckoo. Grand Cayman Thrush. Ascencion Crake. Kakawahie. What do the eight…

When birds go from Least Concern to Near-Threatened to Vulnerable to Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature…

This is not a review proper, because — full disclosure — playwright Justin Maxwell is a friend of mine and…