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...

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

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