Birds fascinate us for many reasons. Flight, beauty, the glimpse into the world of dinosaurs, to mention but a few of those reasons. The...
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...
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...
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