The White-winged guan (Penelope albipennis) was thought to be extinct for 100 years. The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish...

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I...

I’ve decided to get into the bird tour business. I mean, how hard could it be? Get up early, point at lots of birds,...

If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on...

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention.  Three books will...

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....

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...

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....