His key point is that [other] species may be increasingly disappearing in the fashion of the great auk. I didn't quite realize this until late in my writing process, and diving again and again ...

where she is on view through October 2015 in the exhibition “Once There Were Billions”—accompanied by specimens of three other extinct avian species: the great auk, Carolina parakeet and ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...