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

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

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

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

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

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

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...