Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. Each...
One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period...
If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’...
Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an...
It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the...
September sharpens one’s priorities, in that every weekend offers so much to do that only the most attractive or...
The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus...
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