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

Long-time readers of this blog probably also know Tai Haku, the scuba-diving, tree-planting, bird photographing nature blogger at Earth,...

Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct —...

When Costa Rica becomes a topic of conversation, we don’t usually hear the word “extinction” being thrown around. You...

The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. Not more than four years following the final...

So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering...

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. The species that...

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular.  Each...