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...
Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....
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...
I have never quite made up my mind how this beautiful bush-shrike’s name should be pronounced. I favour stressing the penultimate syllable with a...
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