Author Sherrida Woodley finds inspiration at the intersection of avians and extinction. The dearly departed Passenger Pigeon plays a...

There are few stories in ornithology I enjoy more than those of a Lazarus taxon, a species thought to...

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

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...

“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the Pacific rat was the...

“Islands are where species go to die.” David Quammen, Song of the Dodo 12,000 birds. No doubt to many...

The last Great Auk in Britain was executed as a witch, or so the story goes. Perhaps executed is...