About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck, a charming species related to the pochards (although...
Genyornis newtoni, weighted about 500 pounds and stood seven feet tall. It was a bird, and this is where...
Extinction endures long past regret or even memory. We nature lovers, celebrants of life in all its exquisite multiformity,...
Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct —...
The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. Not more than four years following the final...
Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. Each...
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