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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....

Birding, Conservation

A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project

by Meredith Mann 3 Comments

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...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (First of September 2014)

by Mike 2 Comments

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....

Birds

The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

September 7, 2014 by David 2 Comments

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

Birds

Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

by Clare M No Comments

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

Blogging

Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

by Corey 2 Comments

Passenger Pigeon. Kioea. Broad-billed Parrot. Alaotra Grebe. Saint Helena Cuckoo. Grand Cayman Thrush. Ascencion Crake. Kakawahie. What do the eight birds above have in...