Author Sherrida Woodley finds inspiration at the intersection of avians and extinction. The dearly departed...
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No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone...
“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the...
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The last Great Auk in Britain was executed as a witch, or so the story...
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