Extinction Week

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a…

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

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very…

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying…

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island…

It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the car…

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought,…

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent….

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