Pink-headed Duck illustrated by Henrik Gorvald
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Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?

September 13, 2014 by Carrie 3 Comments
Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome...
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Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas

September 12, 2014 by Nate No Comments
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...
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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.

by Suzie 1 Comment
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...
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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

by Carlos No Comments
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...
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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

September 11, 2014 by Nate No Comments
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...
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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

by Duncan No Comments
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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Comebackers

September 9, 2014 by Felonious Jive 6 Comments
If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on...
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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

September 8, 2014 by Corey No Comments
Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....
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