Extinction Week

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

Long-time readers of this blog probably also know Tai Haku, the scuba-diving, tree-planting, bird photographing nature blogger at Earth, Wind,…

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

When Costa Rica becomes a topic of conversation, we don’t usually hear the word “extinction” being thrown around. You might…

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

So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering a…

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. The species that manage…

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

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of…

The White-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) was thought to be extinct for 100 years. The Guan had never been seen in…