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...

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....

It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the car down, to catch as much...

September sharpens one’s priorities, in that every weekend offers so much to do that only the most attractive or important options make the cut....

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even,...

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

Parking lots in Miami-Dade county offer a mostly standard assortment of birds compared to the rest of the United States. We have House Sparrow,...