About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck, a charming species related to the pochards (although how, exactly, is up for...

Genyornis newtoni, weighted about 500 pounds and stood seven feet tall. It was a bird, and this is where the whole bird-dinosaur thing gets...

Extinction endures long past regret or even memory. We nature lovers, celebrants of life in all its exquisite multiformity, feel more keenly than most...

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...

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...

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,...

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...