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....

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...