In the few weeks we have been in Palmerston I have been enjoying some great birds and the cycling paths are particularly good and...

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

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

Keep your eyes to the skies. Maybe you’ll see a Passenger Pigeon, but probably not… September offers enough worthwhile diversions to make anybody’s head spin,...

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

There is no excuse for putting a banner photo like this on a renowned birding site. It’s just that when summer is over and...

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

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