Conservation

Contemplating California Condors

March 31, 2012 by a Guest 1 Comment
Author Sherrida Woodley finds inspiration at the intersection of avians and extinction. The dearly departed Passenger Pigeon plays a pivotal role in her award-winning...
Birding, Conservation

New Zealand Storm-petrels; Back from the Dead

September 28, 2011 by Duncan 3 Comments
There are few stories in ornithology I enjoy more than those of a Lazarus taxon, a species thought to be extinct being found alive...
Birds

Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

May 10, 2011 by Nate 10 Comments
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...
Conservation

Mining for moa

January 5, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments
No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone and there ain’t no moa’ New Zealand folk song....
Birding

Enter the Rat

December 22, 2010 by Duncan 4 Comments
“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the Pacific rat was the only factor in the extinction...
Conservation

12,000 Birds

December 8, 2010 by Duncan 8 Comments
“Islands are where species go to die.” David Quammen, Song of the Dodo 12,000 birds. No doubt to many readers it has a familiar...
Birds

In Praise of the Great Auk

December 5, 2007 by Carrie 8 Comments
The last Great Auk in Britain was executed as a witch, or so the story goes. Perhaps executed is not quite fair – there...
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